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yellowish brown, sparingly covered with minute black hairs. Nose rather 

 sharp, hairs of moustaches long (2-25 in.), all black. Teeth yellow. Legs and 

 feet covered with short brownish grey hairs, whitish on the toes, forming, just 

 above each nail, small tufts, which equal the nail in length. 



Colours. — Top of the head and back bluish black, mingled on the back witli 

 many white hairs, giving it a somewhat grizzled appearance. On the sides the 

 black passes gradually into blackish grey, which is the colour of the whole 

 under pa rts. Hairs of the body white or gi'ey at the base ; fur blackish grey. 

 Hairs on the back long (1 -25 in.) and soft, but not silky. The upper incisors 

 yellowish orange, the lower ones yellowish white. 



Length from snout to root of tail, 6-5 in. ; of tail, 8-5 in. ; of head, 2 in. ; 

 breadth of head between the ears, 'TS in. ; lengtli of ear, .87in. ; breadth, •62in. ; 

 length from nose to ear, 1-44 in. ; hind foot, 1-3 in. ; fore foot, -75 in. 

 Weight a little more than two ounces. 



This specimen is a female, and was caught by a dog in the Tinakori Road, 

 Wellington, on the 24th August, 1871. 



Mr. J. A. Allen, in his "Mammalia of Massachusetts," remarks that "this 

 species changes from black to grey, very old individuals becoming very light 

 coloured." 



Aet. X.'X.Y.—On the Bats of New Zealand. By Capt. F. W. Hutton, F.G.S. 

 [Read before the Wellington Philosophical Society, 26th August, 1871.] 



Only two species of bat are at present known to inhabit New Zealand, and 

 neither of these are found anywhere else. The commoner kind, or the Short- 

 eared Bat, belongs to a large genus widely spread over the old world, and 

 containing four species from Australia ; it is, therefore, probable that other 

 species of this genus will be found in New Zealand. The raider kind, or the 

 Long-eared Bat, is so different from any other known species, that Dr. J. E. 

 Gray has placed it in a separate genus. Its neai'est allies inhabit South 

 America, so that in New Zealand representatives of the bats of both the old and 

 new worlds meet. 



In the following descriptions the characters of the families have been 

 taken from Dr. J. E. Gray's arrangement of the bats in the "Ann. and 

 Mag. Nat. Hist.," Yol. XVIL, pp. 89-93, as quoted in the "Zoological 

 Record " for 1866 :— 



Family Vesperfilionidce. 



Face simple ; nostrils simple, on the front of the nose ; the cutting teeth 

 separated in the ^middle by a space, and placed near the canines ; grinders 



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