GREAT BAT. 



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CHEIROPTERA. 



VESPERTILIONIBAi. 



THE GREAT BAT. 



NOCTULE. 



Scotophilus noctula. 



Specific Clmracler. — Ears oval-triangular, shorter than the head ; tragus 

 not one-third the length of the ear, arcuate, terminating in a broad, rounded 

 liead ; muzzle short, hroad, and blunt. Wing membranes extending only to 

 the distal extremity of the tibia. 



Vespertilio noctula, 



, , altivolans, 

 , , proterus, 

 Scotophilus noctula, 

 Vespertilio macuanus, 

 Vesperurjo noctula. 

 La Noctule, 



La Serotine, 

 Great Bat, 



SoHREB. Saiigth. p. 166, t. lii. Desmak. Mam- 

 mal, p. 156. Flem. Brit. An. p. 6. Jentns, 

 Brit. Vert. p. 23. 



White, Nat. Hist. Selb. XXXVII. 



KuHL, Deutsch. Flederm. p. 41. 



Gray, Mag. Zool. & Bot., 1838, p. 497. 



Peters, Reise nach Mosambique, I. 61, xvi. 



Blas. Faun. Wirb. Deutsch. p. 53, f. 33, 34. 



Datibenton, Mem. Acad. 1759, p. 380, t. ii. f. 1. 

 BuFFON, Hist. Nat. VIII. p. 128, t. xviii. f. 1. 



Geoff. Ann. Mus. VIII. p. 194, sp. 4. 



Pennant, Brit. Zool. I. p. 146, t. xiii. 



It is to Daubenton that we are indebted for the discri- 

 mination of this fine species of European Bat. He has 



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