THE BARBASTELLE. 81 



CHEIROPTERA . VESPERTILIONID^. 



Genus, Barbastellus. 



Generic Characters. Ears moderate, united at the base ; a hollowed 

 naked space on the upper surface of the muzzle, in which the nostrils are 

 placed ; grinders four above and four below on each side. 



THE BARBASTELLE. 



Barbastellus Daubentonii. 



Fespertilio barbastellus, GM. SOWERBY, Brit. Miscell. t. v. MONTAGU in 



Linn. Trans, ix. p. 171. KUHL, Deutsch. Fle- 



derm. sp. 10. DESMAR. Mammal, p. 145. 



PENN. Brit. Zool. i. p. 183. JENYNS, Brit. Vert. 



sp. 38. 

 La Barbastelle, DAUBENT. Mem. de 1'Acad. 1759, p. 381, t. ii. f. 3. 



BUFFON, Hist. Nat. viii. p. 119, t. xix. f. 2. 



GEOFFROY, Ann. Des. Sc. viii. p. 196, sp. 6, 



t. xlvi. xlviii. 

 GRAY, Zool. Journ. vol. ii. 

 LESSON, Mam. FLEM. Brit. An. p. 7. 

 BONAP., Faun. Ital. 

 BLAS. 1. c. p. 43, f. 33, 34. 



Genus Barbastellus, 

 Plecotus barbastellus, 

 Barbastellus vulgaris, 

 Synotus Barbastellus, 



ALTHOUGH long known as a native of France and of 

 some other parts of the Continent, it is only of later 

 years that the Barhastelle has been discovered to inhabit 



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