THE BARBASTElJ.i;. 



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CHEIROPTERA. 



VEHPERTIL JONID^E. 



Genus, BarhaftfeUuf;. 



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 si<le. 



THE BARBASTELLE. 



Barbastellus Daubentonii. 



Vexpertilio barbasteUus, Gm. Sowerby, Brit. Miscell. t. v. Montagu in 



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



denn. sp. 10. Desmar. Mammal, p. 145. 



Penn. Brit. Zool. i. p. 183. Jenyns, Brit. Vei't. 



sp. 38. 

 La BarhaslcUe, Daubent. Mem. de I'Acad. ir.'iO, p. 381, t. ii. f. 3. 



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



Geoffroy, Ann. Dos. 8c. viii. p. 190, sp. ti, 



t. xlvi. xlviii. 

 Gemis Burhastellm, Gray, Zool. Journ. vol. ii. 

 Plecotus barbastellm, Lesson, Mam. Flem. IJrit. An. p. 7. 

 BarbasteUus ruhjarU, ]5onap.. Faun. Ital. 

 Sijnotus Barbastellus, Blas. 1. c. p. 43, f. 33, 34. 



Although long known as a native of France and of 

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

 years that the Barbastelle has been discovered to inhabit 



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