GREAT BAT. 



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CllKinoPTERA. 



VEliPERTTLIOM !>,]<:. 



THE GREAT BAT. 



NOCTULE. 



Scotophilvs noctulo. 



Sj^eci^fic Charaaer.—Fj'cira oval-triangular, shorter than the head; tragus 

 not one-third the length of the ear, arcuate, terminating in a broad, rounded 

 head ; muzzle short, broad, and bhiiit. Wing membranes extending only to 

 the distal extremity of the tiliia. 



Vespertilio v orfa/a, 



,, allivolansf, 

 ,, ivotcrus, 

 Smtophihin nociula, 

 Vesperliiio macuan ua, 

 Vcsperurjo nodulu, 

 La Nodule, 



La Serotine, 

 Great Bat, 



SciiREB. Saiigth. ji. ItifJ, t. Hi. Desm.vk. Mam- 

 mal, p. 150. Fle.m. iJrit. An. p. 6. Jknyns, 

 Brit. Vert. p. 23. 



White, Nat. Hist. Selb. XXXVII. 



KuiiL, Dcutsch. Flederm. p. 41. 



Gray, Mag. Zool. & Bot., 1838, p. 497. 



Peter.s, Rei.se naeh Mosanibique, I. Rl, xvi. 



Blas. Faun. Wirb. Deutsch. p. 53, f. 33, 34. 



Daubenton, Mem. Acad. 1750, p. 380, t. ii. f. 1. 

 BuFFON, Hist. Nat. Vlll. ]>. 128, t. xviii. f. 1. 



Geoff. Ann. Mus. VIII. p. 194, .sp. 4. 



Pennant, Brit. Zool. I. p. 14(), t. xiii. 



It is to DaiiLenton that \\v arc indebted for llicdiscri- 

 nniiatioii of this fine species of ICuropean Bat. He lias 



