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colour underneath. M. Geoffroy found a bat of this kind 

 in Egypt, apparently smaller than the European muritus, 

 and which bordered more upon the red. 



The slope-eared bat (vespertilio emarginatus) is another of 

 the bats of Europe. It escaped the researches of Daubenton, 

 and of all the naturalists who succeeded him. It is, however, 

 very common both in England and France. M. Geoffroy gives 

 it the name of emarginatus, in consequence of a very 

 marked slope at the external edge of its ears, and he thus 

 characterizes it : " Oblong ears, of the length of the head, 

 and sloped at their external edge ; auricula, awl-shaped ; 

 fur reddish, gray above, ash-coloured below." This is the 

 first instance we meet of this long and narrowed auricula, 

 shaped like an awl, but it is a character of almost all the 

 foreign vespertiliones. This species might be confounded 

 with the pipistrelle, though it is somewhat larger, in con- 

 sequence of the great resemblance of physiognomy. It also 

 resembles the common bat in the two colours of its fur. It is 

 not only towards the point that this hair is grayish-red, 

 but it begins to be so from one-half of its length; hence, 

 the general tint is uniform. Nevertheless, as it is long and 

 tufted, when brushed back, some spots of dark ash-colour 

 are perceived, which is the colour of the other portion of 

 the hair. Under the belly, the extremities of the hair are 

 of a dirty white. 



The vespertilio pictus, Kirivoula or striped bat, is one 

 of the most anciently and best known, though a foreign 

 species, and belonging to India. Seba was the first who 

 gave a figure of it. Daubenton afterwards described it, 

 and gave a much better print. Pallas also described an in- 

 dividual, which he had seen in Holland ; he was wrong, 

 however, in attributing to it eight incisors in the lower 

 jaw. The Kirivoula, as Daubenton had already described it, 

 has but six. Kirivoula is the name of this bat, at Ceylon ; 

 it is also found, according to Seba, at the island of Ternate. 



