MAMMALIA. PRIMATES. Bat. 99 



21. Horfe-flioe Bat. — 20. Vefperlllio ferrum- equinum. 20. 



Has a tail : The nofe refembles the figure of a horfe (hoe; the ears are of the fame 

 length with the head, and have no lid ; the tail is about half the length of the 

 body. 



Horfe-fhoe bat. Sm. Buff. iv. 317. 7th fpec. p. 324. pi. xciii. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 406. Brit. 

 zool. i. 129. 



Inhabits France, and Franconia in Germany, has lately been difcovered in Kent, by Mr Latham 

 of Dartford, and is found about the Cafpian. — This fpecies was firft obferved by the illuftrious 

 Daubenton, and defcribed very accurately in his account of the various kinds of bats. The counte- 

 nance is remarkably deformed, and its moft ftriking feature is a membrane, which, fhaped like a 

 .horfe flioe, furrounds the nofe and upper lip; the ears are large, broad at the bafe, fharp pointed, 

 and incline backwards, having no lid, or little internal ear; the upper parts of the body are of a deep 

 cinereous colour, and the lower parts are whitifh. There is a greater and leffer variety, which arc 

 v«ry fimilar in form. 



•ajl ex.. Larger horfe- fhoe Bat.— 20. a..Vefp.fer.-equ. major. 



This variety is about three inches and a half long, from the tip of the nofe to 

 the origin of the tail j its extent is above fourteen inches. Schreber, i. 174. pi. Ixii. 

 ■upper fig. 



$32 |S. Leffer Horfe-fhoe Bat. — 20.. /3. Vefp.fer.-equ. minor. 



The particular fize and differences of this variety are not mentioned by authors, only 

 -that it is lefs than the preceding. Schreber, i. r74.pl. Ixii. lower fig. 



H. Having no fore teeth in either jaw. 



i$3 22. New- York Bat. — 21. Vefpertilto noveboracenjls. 



Has a long tail : The muzzle is fliort and fharp pointed ; and the ears are fhort 



and rounded. Penn. hift. of quad. n. 403. Arctic, zool. n. 82, Leverian muf. Forfter's voy. 

 189. 



Inhabits North America, and is alfo found in New Zeland. — The head is fhaped like that of a 

 moufe, having the top of the nofe a little divided; the ears are fliort, broad, and rounded; the tail 

 is very long, and is inclofed in the membrane, which at that part is covered with long, and very foft 

 hair, of a bright tawny colour ; the head and body are of a bright tawny colour, lighteft on the head 

 and beginning of the back ; the belly is paler ; and there is a white fpot at the bafe of each wing ; 

 the membrane is thin, naked, and of a dufky colour; and the hind legs are very flender: The length 

 is about two inches and a half, the tail near two inches long, and the extent of the wings ten and a 

 half inches. 



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