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great naturalist, has become so fashionable, is now fortunately on 

 the decline, and is giving way to the study of natural groups, or the 

 monography of particular genera ; a mode of illustration which is 

 much better adapted to the improvement of science. But yet as 

 it is certainly both interesting and useful to the student, to be 

 acquainted with what are the native inhabitants of his own 

 country, especially when that country is such an insulated place 

 as Great Britain ; and as I consider that a list of the Species of a 

 group from a systematic author, with a few of the principal Syno- 

 nyma is as useful for that purpose as a more enlarged description j 

 I have drawn up such a list of the Species of Bats found in this 

 country, which are preserved in the British Museum, with an 

 account of their habitation when they appeared local. 



1. Vespertilio murlnus. Linn. — Desm. Mam. — Ency. Meth. n. 



200. 



2. Vespertilio Bechsteinsi. Leister. — Desm. Mam. n. 201. 



New Forest. Mr. Millard. 



3. Vespertilio Nattereri. Kuhl.—Desm. Mam. n. 202. 



Common about London. 



4. Vespertilio Noctula. Gmelin. — Desm. Mam. n. 204. 



Vespertilio laicopterus. Schreb. Saiighi. t. 58. 



5. Vespertilio mystacinus. Leister. — Desm. Mam. n. 211. 



Vespertilio Barbastellus. Montague Mus. 

 Devonshire. Alontagu. 



6. Vespertilio serotinus. Gmelin. — Desm. Mam. n. 205. 



About London. 



7. Vespertiho pygmaaus. Leach. Zool. Journ. i. 559. 



? Vespertilio pipistrellus. Desm. Mam. n. 209. 

 Dartmoor. Dr. Leach. 



8. Plecotus auritus. Geoff. 



Vespertilio auritus. Linn. — Desm. Mam. n. 223. 

 Common. London. 



9. Rhinolophus unihastatus. Geoff. — Desm. Mam. n. 184. 



Vespertilio ferrum Equinum. Linn. 



10. Rhinolophus bihastatus. Geoff. — Desm. Mam, n. 185. 



Vespertilio ferrum Equinum. /3. Gmelin. 



