MAMMALIA. PRIMATES. Bat. 91 



fometimes to great heights, and to a confiderable diftance. It has large tufks, a fharp black muzzle, 

 and large naked ears ; the tongue is pointed, and garnifhed with fharp reverfed prickles. This 

 fpecies varies in colour, fome being dufky, and others of a reddifh brown ; and fome individuals arc 

 found more than a foot long. 



107 /3. Rouget. — i. /3. Vefp. Vampyrus fulmlger. 



The body is of a brownifh black colour. 



Dark-brown Pteropus, having ihort ears, fomewhat pointed, and the upper part of the neck of 

 a red colour. Brill", quad. 154. — Bat from the Ifle of Sabuda in New Guinea. Dampier, voy. v. Si. 

 t. 5. — Great bat. Edw. av. iv. 180. t. 180. — Rouflette. Daubenton, Act. Parif. 1759, p. 385. — 

 Rougette. Sm. Buff. v. 281. pi. cxxxv. Penn. hill, of quad. p. 549. 



This variety is of a cinereous brown colour, having a half collar on the upper part of its neck of a 

 lively red mixed with orange ; it refembles the former very much in fhape, but is much lefs, being 

 only about five and a half inches long, and about two feet in extent. This fpecies never flies abroad 

 in the day, and lives in focieties, of more than four hundred, in the hollow trunks of large decaying 

 trees ; among which vaft flock, it is generally believed, there is never more than one male. This ani- 

 mal becomes very fat, and is reckoned good and wholefome food. 



108 . y. Leffer Vampire. — Vefp. Vampyrus helvus. 



The body is of a pale yellow, or draw colour. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 393. /3. Leverian. 



Muf. 



This variety has a head made like that of a greyhound, with large teeth ; the ears are long, broad, 

 and naked ; and the whole body is covered with Ihort, ftraw-coloured hair. ' It is about eight inches 

 and a half long, and the wings are two feet two inches in extent ; being very much like the two for- 

 mer animals, but its place and hiftory are unknown. 



109 2. Spe&re.— 2. Vefpertilio Speclrum. 2. 



Has no tail : The muzzle has a funnel fhaped membrane, bent inwards at the end. 

 Schreber, i. 159. tab. xlv. 



Pteropus, with long open ears, and having a membrane, bent inwards at its fore part, joined to 

 the muzzle. BrifT. quad. 154. — Flying-dog, Canis volans, with very large ears, from New Spain. 

 Seba, Muf. i. 92. t. 58. f. 1. — Horned bat, or Andira-guacu. Pifo, Brafil. 290. — Vampire. Sm. 

 Buff", v. p. 283. — Spectre. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 394. 



Inhabits South America. — The fore part of the noftrils refembles a funnel, turning upwards and in- 

 wards, and terminated by a membrane, fhaped like a leaf; the ears are oval, having a narrow pointed 

 flap on the infide, as long as the external ear ; the tufks are very large and folitary ; the anterior grin- 

 ders are blunt, and fhorter than the reft ; the wings are fubtended on four toes, of which the firft and 

 fecond are connected together; and the fore legs have each a detached thumb, armed with a hooked claw; 

 the hind feet have each five equal toes, which are provided with hooked claws ; the rump fends off, 

 on each fide, a narrow tapering tendon, along the margin- of the membrane between the hind legs ; 

 but thefe do not reach fo far as to meet. This animal is extremely uggly and hideous ; the head is ill 



M 2 fhaped, 



