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cartilage, as in most animals, but are placed on the 

 side of a small gutter or furrow, which is open from 

 one end to the other; the ears are long and narrow; 

 the upper part of the head and body is of a reddish 

 brown colour, the lower part whitish, tinged with 

 yellow; hair on the forehead and under the chin 

 very long ; length of the body about an inch and a 

 half; extent of the wings little more than seven. 



THE STRIPED BAT. 



( Vesper tilio Spasina, Linn.) 



HAS a small, short nose; ears short, broad, and 

 pointing forward. These Bats vary in colour. The 

 body is generally of a clear brown, the under part 

 whitish : its wings are striped with black, and 

 sometimes with yellow arid brown. Length of the 

 body two inches. It is a native of Ceylon, where 

 it is called Kiriwoula. 



To this we may add a very minute kind, men- 

 tioned by Mr. Forster, which was seen and heard 

 in myriads on the island of Tanna, one of the New 

 Hebrides; but every attempt of our voyagers to ob- 

 tain a nearer inspection of them failed of success. 



Bats differ very much in the number and dispo- 

 sition of their teeth, which has occasioned no small 

 confusion in the arrangements of systematic writers; 

 some of them being furnished with two, others with 

 more cutting teeth in each jaw. 



We have now given the most distinguished varie- 

 ties of this curious species. It would be fruitless, 

 if not impossible, to point out all the peculiarities 



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