70 MAMMALITA.. “ 
lated below; the tail involved in the membrane. This subgenus is the 
most numerous of the whole, its species being found in every part of the 
world. France alone has six or seven. 
The tragus of some is shaped like an awl, and to this division belongs 
the most commonly known species. 
Vesp. murinus, L.; V.myotis, Kuhl, Buff. VIII. xvi. (The 
Common Bat). Oblong ears, the length of the head; hair brown; 
maronne above, bright grey beneath; the young of an ashy grey. 
Some other smaller but neighbouring species have lately been ob- 
served in Europe*. 
In others again the tragus is angular, such as the 
Vesp. serotinus, L.; Buff. VIII. xvi, 2. (The Serotine Bat). 
A deep maronne; wings and ears blackish; the conch triangular and 
shorter than the head. The female is paler than the male. Found 
under the roofs of churches, and of other little frequented edifices, 
A third kind has a crescent shaped tragus. 
V. noctula, L.; Buff. VILLI. xvi, 1; V. proterus, Kuhl; V. la- 
siopterus, Schreb., 58, B. (The Noctule Bat). Fawn coloured; 
ears triangular, shorter than the head; tragus rounded, a little larger 
than the preceding. Found in the hollows of old trees, &c. 
V. pipistrellus, Gm.; Buff. VIII. xx, 1. (The Pipistrille). The 
smallest one in France; a blackish brown; ears triangular f. 
M. Geoffroy separates still further from the Vespertilio, the 
Precotvus, Geoff. 
Oreillards, whose ears are larger than the head, and are united to each 
other on the cranium, as in Megaderma, the Rhinopomes, &c.; the tragus 
large and lanceolate—and there is an operculum on their auditory aper- 
ture. 
The common species—Vesp. auritus, L.; Buff. VIII. xvu, 1. 
(The Long-eared Bat). Still more abundant in France than the Bat. 
Its ears are nearly as large as the rest of the body. It lives in 
houses, kitchens, &c. There is also another discovered by Dau- 
benton—(the Barbastelle)—Vesp. barbastellus, Gm., Buff, VIII. 
19, 2. Brown, with much smaller ears§. 
* The V. Bechsteinii, Leisler, Chauves. d’Allem., pl. 22.—The V. mystacinus, Ib. 
18.—V. Daubentoni, Leisler, Kuhl, pl. xxv, 2,—V. Nattereri, Kuhl, pl. 23, &c.—Add 
foreign species, V. emarginatus, Geoff. Ann. Mus. VIII. pl. 46.—F. pictus, L. or the 
Kirivoula of Java, Seb. I. pl. 56, f. 23.—V. polythrix, Isid. Geoff. Ann. des Se. Nat. 
III. p. 440.—V. levis, Id. ib. &e. : 
t Add V. carolinensis, Geoff. Ann. Mus. VIII. pl. 47. [See Append. I. of Am. Ed.] 
{ Add the Vespertilio of Kuhl, (V. Kuhlii, Natterer), Kuhl, Chauves. d’Allem. 
. OO. 
§ Add the Plec. timoriensis, Geoff.—Pl. velatus, Isid. Geoff.—Pl. maugei, Desm.— 
Plec. cornutus, Fab.—Vesp. megalotis, Rafin. [See Append. IT. of Am. Ed. | 
N. B.—As our plan permits us to class those animals only whose characters we 
have ascertained either from personal observation or from very complete descriptions 
and figures, we have been compelled to omit several of the genera of MM. Leach, 
