MAMMALIA. PRIMATES. , Bat. 93 



tinged with red ; the tongue is very long, and feems adapted for fucking blood like the Vampire and 

 Spectre. 



114 7. Hare-lip Bat.— 7. Vefpertilio leporinus. 9. 



Has a tail j and the upper lip is divided. Syft. nat. ed. x. p. 32. u. 4. Schreber, L 162. 

 tab. lx. 



American night-bat, Noctilio Americana, having a warty under lip. Syft. nat. ed. xii. p. 88- 

 n. i. — Dulky-red American bat. Briff. quad. 227. — American bat. Seba, Muf. i. 89. t. 55. — Bat 

 from the Valley of Ylo. Feuille, obf. i. p. 623. — Peruvian bat. Perm. Lift, of quad. n. 398. 



Inhabits South America. — This fpecies is about the fize of a rat, and lives on fruits ; it is of an iron- 

 grey colour ; the head is like that of a pug-dog, with large pointed ears ; the tail is inclofed in the 

 membrane, which is alfo fupported by two long cartilaginous ligaments ; and the wings extend tww 

 feet two inches. 



j ! r 8. Chop-fallen Bat. — Vefpertilio labialis. 



Has a fhort tail, and hanging lips ; the nofe is two-lobbed, and the upper lip di- 

 vided. 

 Variety /3. of the Peruvian bat. Penn. hilt, of quad. n. 398. /3. 



Inhabits Peru, and the Mufquito fhore. — The head is larger with hanging lips, like thofe of a maf- 

 tiff-, the nofe is two-lobed; the upper lip is divided, and the ears are ftraight, long, and narrow; the 

 tail is fhort, having a few of its extreme joints Handing out from the membrane, which includes its 

 lower part, and projects far beyond it, in an angular form, ending in a point; the colour of the head 

 and back is brown, of the belly afh coloured, and of the membrane, which is very thin, duflcy: It is 

 about five inches long, and twenty inches in extent *. 



4. B. Having four fore-teeth in the upper, and fix in the lower jaw. 



116 9- Long-eared Bat. — 8. Vefpertilio auritus. 5. 



Has a tail : The lips and muzzle are fimple ; but the ears are double, and larger than 

 the head. Faun. Suec. 3. 



Great-eared bat. Frifch. av. t. 103. Edw. av. v. t. 201. f. 3. — Bat, having a tail, a fimple' 

 nofe, and very large ears without any pendicle. Gronov. zoop. 23. — Moufe-coloured bat, with 

 double ears. Briff. quad. 160. — Bat, with quadruple ears. Jonft. av. 34. t. 20. — Long-eared bat, 

 or Oreillar. Sm. Buff. iv. 2d fpec. p. 322. pi. xc. fig. 2.— Long-eared bat. Penn. hilt, of quad. 

 n. 412. Brit. 2001.. i. 129. Lev. Muf. 



Inhabits Europe, and is found in Britain. — This is much fmaller than the following fpecies, or com- 

 mon Bat, than which it is perhaps more numerous ; its wings' are Shorter, its muzzle fmaller and 

 (harper, and its ears are of an immoderate fise. 



10. 



* By length is meant the meafure from the tip of the nofe to the rump - } and by extent the meafure 

 between the extremities of the wings when ftretched out. — T. 



