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Tomes {Zoologist, 1854, p. 361) to the present species. It is 

 probably this example which is entered in Dr. Dobson's " Cata- 

 logue of Chiroptera in the British Museum," as being of British 

 origin. 



II. daubenton's bat. vespertilio daubentoni. 



Vesperlilio daubentonii, Leisler, in Kuhl's Deutsch. Flederm. 

 p. 51 (1817); Bell, British Quadrupeds 2nd. ed. p. 60 

 (1874) ; Dobson, Cat. Chiroptera Brit. Mus. p. 297 

 .(1878). 



Vespertilio emarginatus (nee Geoffr.), Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 26 



(1835)- 

 Vespertilio cedilis, Jenyns, Ann. Nat. Hist. 1839 p. 73. 

 Vespertilio daubentoni, Blanford, Mamm. Brit. India p. 331 

 (1891). 



Characters. — This, the second representative of the long- 

 footed group, has the wings arising from the sides cf the feet 

 just below the ankle, while the ears when laid forward extend 

 to the tip of the nose. Ears with the tips rounded, but not 

 very broadly, and the inner margin regularly convex, and the 

 outer straight or slightly concave for nearly the upper half of 

 its length, below which it becomes suddenly convex. Earlet 

 moderately pointed, about half the length of the ear, its inner 

 margin straight, and the outer slightly convex, with a rounded 

 lobe projecting just above the base. Face in front of eyes 

 partially naked, and a rather tumid area between the eyes 

 and nostrils. Upper incisor teeth nearly equal in size, with 

 widely divergent cusps; middle upper pre-molar clearly visible 

 externally, and about one-third the height of the first. Colour, 

 brown above and dirty white beneath ; at least the basal half 

 of all the hairs being dark brown. Length of head and body 

 about i^^ inch ; of tail, i f inch. 



Distrilintion. — Daubenton's Bat is an inhabitant of Northern 



