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CHEIROPTERA. VESPERTILJONIDJE. 



WHISKERED BAT. 



Vespertilio mystacinus. 



Ears oblong, bending outwards, shorter than the head, notched on the 

 outer margin ; tragus half the length of the auricle, lanceolate, a little ex- 

 panded at the o-uter margin near the base ; upper lip furnished with a 

 moustache of long fine hair : fur blackish chestnut above, dusky beneath. 



Vespertilio mystacinus, LEISLER. KUHL, Deutsch. Flederm. sp. 14. DES- 

 MAR. Mammal, p. 140. GRAY, Zool. Journ. II. 

 p. 109. JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 26. 



THIS species was discovered by Leisler in Germany, 

 where it is said to be rare. The first notice of its being 

 an inhabitant of this country appears in Dr. Gray's 

 enumeration of British Vesper tilionida in the Zoological 

 Journal. This gentleman supposes that Montagu mistook 

 it for Barbastellus , and states that the specimen marked 

 Barbastellus in the British Museum, which belonged to 

 Montagu, is of this species. Mr. Jenyns has obtained it 

 in Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire ; Mr. Yarrell, 

 from the caverns at Colchester ; and one we had living 



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