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body, and reaching to the feet themselves, and are 

 continued from the hind-feet to the tip of the tail, 

 which is inckided in the same skin*. This curious 

 quadruped, which has often been indistinctly de- 

 scribed by Indian travellers., under the title of the 

 Flying Caty is a native of the East Indian islands, 

 where it lives in the manner of the genus Lemur, 

 but flutters about during the night in the manner 

 of a bat. Its general colour is grey, with a slight 

 cast of reddish brown. Specimens are figured in 

 the work of Audebert, from the museum of the 

 Prince of Orange. That figured in the work of 

 Mr. Pennant is from the Leverian museum. This 

 animal therefore may, at present, lead us, by a 

 kind of natural transition, to the genus Vespertilio 

 or Bat. 



Linnaeus has been sometimes severely censured 

 for placing the Bats in the same tribe with the 

 Primates, to which, on a cursory view, they seem 

 so little allied. As it is certain, however, that we 

 cannot form a fairly connected chain of the animal 

 world, these seemingly abrupt transitions are but 



- * Its particular characters are: no front- teeth in the upper-jaw j 

 but in the lower six broad^ short, and distinct or separate teeth, 

 deeply notched or pectinated on the tips^ 



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