in which the delicate and admirable structure of the 

 wings ii. finely shewn. 



The Great Bat (Vespertilio Noctula). The largest 

 of the British species. 



The Horseshoe Bat (Vespertilio Ferrum Equinum) 

 with its young ; taken in the Abbey Church, Bristol. 



SLOTH (BRADYPUS TRYDAC lYLUS). 



Three of these are on the stem of the American 

 Aloe, near the head of the Rhinoceros. 



These are of all quadrupeds the most slolhfiil and 

 indolent. " Nature (says the Count de Builon) seems 

 *' to have created this ill-constructed mass of defor- 

 ** mity for nothing but misery.^' They have neither 

 canine nor incissive teeth ; their eyes are dull and 

 heavy, their mouths wide and thick; their far re- 

 sembles dried grass ; their thighs are almost disjointed 

 from their haunches ; their legs are very short and 

 badly shaped ; they have no soles to their feet, nor 

 toes separately moveable ; but only two or three 

 claws, excessively long, crooked downwards and 

 backwards. They can neither seize on prey, nor 

 feed on flesh, and are therefore reduced to live on 

 leaves and wild fruits. They take up a long time in 

 crawling to a tree, and are still longer in climbing 



