180 HOKSE-SHOE BAT. Class I. 



40. Horse- La Chauve-souris a fer a cbeval. operculatis, cauda dimidia 



SHOE, j)g Buffon Tom. viil. 131. corporis longitudine. Gm, 



TaZ'.xvIi. XX. Lin. 50. 



Vespertilio ferrum eqiiinum. V. Horse-shoe Bat. Hist. quad. 



naso ferro equino siniili, auri- ii. No. 512. p. 3l6. 

 bus caput sequantibiis non 



jL HIS species Avas discovered by Dr. Lathmn^ 

 at Dartford, Kent, who was so obliging 

 as to communicate it to me. They are found 

 in the greatest numbers in the salt-petre 

 houses belonging to the powder mills, and fre- 

 quent them during the evening for the sake of 

 the gnats which swarm there. They have been 

 also found during winter in a torpid state cling- 

 ing to the roof. They often feed on Chafers, 

 but only cat the body. 

 Bescrip- The length from the nose to tlie tip of the tail 

 is three inches and a half; the extent fourteen. 

 At the end of the nose is an upright membrane 

 in form of a horse-shoe. Ears large, broad at 

 their base, inclining backwards ; but want the 

 little or internal ear. The color of the upper: 

 part of the body is deep cinereous ; of the lower 

 whitish. 



* The celebrated author of our best works on ornithology, 

 now resident at Romsey. Ed. 



