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CHEIROPTERA. 



VESPERTILIONID^. 



VESPERTILlONIDuE. 



Genus, Plecotus. (Geoff.) 



Generic character. Ears very large, much longer than the head, united at 

 the base. Cutting teeth , grinders :|. 



LONG-EARED BAT. 



Plecotus auritus. 



Ears more than twice the length of the head ; tail longer than the fore- 

 arm, rather obtuse at the apex : fur brownish grey above, paler beneath. 



Vespertilio minor, BRISSON, Quad. 226. 



,, auritus, LINN. Syst. Nat. 47, sp. 5. GEOFF. Ann. Mus. VIII. 



p. 197. KTJHL, Deutsch. Flederm. sp. 1. DESMAR. 



Mammal, p. 114. JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 27, sp. 36. 



Plecotus auritus, GEOFF. GRAY, Zool. Journ. II. p. 109. FLEM. Brit. 



An. p. 7. BONAP. Faun. Ital. p. 108. 

 ,, Christii, GRAY, Mag. Zool. Bot. II. 13. 

 ,, homochrous, HODGS. Journ. As. Soc. XVI. 894. 

 L'Oreillard, DAUBENT. Mem. Acad. 1759, p. 376, t. i. f. 2. BUFFON, 



Hist. Nat. VIII. p. 118, t. xvii. f. 1. 

 Long-eared Bat, PENN. Brit. Quad. I. p. 147, t. xiii. 



THE comparative ignorance of the characters of the 

 Cheiroptera which prevailed until Daubenton set the 



