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COMMON BAT. 



Class I. 



44. Common. Vespertilio. Bat, Flitter, or 



Flutter Mouse. Rail syn. 



quad. 243. 

 Short-eared English Bat. Edio. 



av. 201. f. 2. 

 Seh. Mus. i. 

 The Rear Mouse. Charlton ex. 



80. 

 Meyer's an. i. Tah. 3. 

 Gesner av. 766. 

 Vespertilio murini coloris, pe- 



dibus omnibus pentadacty- 



lis. Brisson quad. 158. 

 La chauvesouris. DeBujffoTif 



Tom. viii. 113. Tab. \6. 

 Vespertilio murinus. Gm.Lin. 



48. 

 V. caudatus naso oreque sim- 



plici. Faun. Suec. 2. 

 V. major. Klein quad. 61. 

 Vespertilio. Plinii Lib. x. 6. 



61. 

 Br. Zool. 55. Hist. quad. ii. 



No. 51Q. p. 320. Arct. 



Zool. i. p. 215. 



Brit. 



Ystlum 



Port. 



Morcego 



Ft en. 



La Chauve sourls 



Germ. 



Speckmaus, Fleder- 



Ital. 



Nattola, Notula, Spor- 





maus 





teglione, Vispristrello, 



Did. 



Vledermuys 





Vilpistrello 



Siced. 



Ladcrlap, Fladermus 



Spaji. 



Murcielago, jMorcie- 



Dan. 



Flagermuus, Aften- 





galo 





bakke. 



XHIS singular animal was placed by Plini/, 

 Gesner, Aldrovandus, and some other natural- 

 ists, among the birds ; they did not consider, 

 that it wanted every character of that order of 

 animals, except the power of flying ; if the irre- 

 gular, uncertain, and jerking motion* of the 



* The English synonym of this animal. Flitter, or Flutter 

 mouse, is very expressive of its action in the air. 



