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Edwards has since produced another figure in his history 

 of birds of one of these phyllostomata, that of Jamaica. 

 But it is much more incorrect than Seba's. 



Buffon, established the species of the javelin-bat, named 

 since by Linnaeus, V. hastatus. First he had given this 

 new phyllostoma as the V. ferspicillatus, or V. Americanus 

 of Seba, but afterwards he reproduced it as a new species, 

 under the title of the great javelin-bat, ( grand-fer- de-lance) , 

 Hist. Nat., Supp., torn. 7, tab. 74. 



Pretty nearly about the same time, Pallas gave a com- 

 plete history of the smallest species of this genus, which he 

 compared in size to the shrew, and for this reason called 

 it V. soricinus. 



These are all the phyllostomata of which mention has 

 been made in systematic writers. Shaw's General Zoology, 

 which appeared in 1800, contains no more species than 

 that of Gmelin. 



Among the ten species of bats discovered by d'Azzara 

 in Paraguay, four belong to this genus. His brown bat, 

 however, and reddish-brown bat are not the vampire and 

 javelin-bat, as he believed, but ought rather to be consi- 

 dered as entirely new ; and also his brown-striped bat P 

 M. Geoffroy makes nine species of the phyllostomata, for 

 which we refer the reader to our table. 



The name vampyrus, which Linnaeus has given to the 

 roussettes known in his time, was appropriated by Buffon 

 to the phyllostoma spectrum, as he was assured the habits 

 which authorized this appellation belonged exclusively to 

 this species. 



Every thing leads us to believe that it is the same of 

 which Pison has spoken under the name of andira-guacu. 

 He has described it to be about the magnitude of a pigeon. 



Seba has given a figure not correct as to the interfemoral 

 membrane. Schreiber afterwards gave a better figure, and 

 added to its incorrectness. The slight stroke in Seba's 



