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General Hardwicke's animal is stated to have measured " ^ inch 

 between the ears," though it is difficult to understand where he fixed the 

 boundary of their bases ; but raising the ears, for they naturally lie flat- 

 ly outwards, (as in the Rhinopomata and Dysopodes,) the distance between 

 those of my specimen scarcely exceeds ^ inch, and as General Hard- 

 wicke's Bat was only "5 inches long, and 14^ inches in extent of wing," 

 I doubt whether a greater interspace existed between its ears than in the 

 subject before me, notwithstanding the figure given, which has doubtless 

 passed through the ordeal of a native artist, in addition to that of the 

 engraver. ** The body," he says, " is thickly covered with a very soft 

 hair, in the adult of a snufF brown ; the legs, wings, and membranes 

 black : but the full- sized young are of a deep black on all parts." To this 

 I will add, from his Latin quasi definition of the species, ** supra ex fusco 

 rufescens, subtus pallidior," and what remains is wholly of generic ap- 

 plication. The absence of any notice of a throat- sinus adds negatively 

 to the probability of the specimen before me being correctly referred to 

 T. longimanus ; while, on the other hand, the whiteness of the base of 

 the fur, which is conspicuous when that of my animal is ruffled by handling, 

 is not a likely feature to be quite overlooked. However, if it should prove 

 to be the only Calcutta species, or the only one at all numerous in this 

 district, our doubts may be pretty safely set aside about the correctness 

 of the identification. 



T.fulvidus, Nobis. — Of this species I found two males and a female 

 preserved in spirits in the Museum of the Asiatic Society, but cannot 

 learn where they were obtained ; though I have been informed that 

 it is common at Darjeeling. It is smaller than the last, with pro- 

 portionally smaller ears, a deep throat- sinus, and fur pale fulvous- 

 brown at base, grizzled towards the extremity with darker-brown, 

 the extreme tips whitish : some have the nape and interscapulary region 

 ungrizzled fulvous, and the under-parts are more slightly grizzled than 

 the upper : face very pale, and membranes also of a light colour. 



Length of the finer male 4|- inches from nostrils to tail-tip, the 

 membrane extending f inch further ; alar expanse IZ^ inches : 

 length of the female, to end of tail, 3f inches, and alar expanse 13 inches. 

 Tail (of the male) 1 inch, of which half would seem to be enveloped in the 

 membrane and incapable of protrusion, nor does much of the remain- 

 der appear to be capable of being sheathed when the membrane is ex- 



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