Glass I. GREAT BAT. NH 



Div. IV. WINGED. 



GENUS XX. BAT. 



Toes of the fore-feet long, extended, connected 

 by a thin membrane continued to the hind- 

 legs, and giving a power of flight. 



Vespertilio Noctula. V. cauda- La noetule De Buffon Tom. 39. Great. 



tus, naso oreque simplici, viii. Tab. mm. p. 123. Hist. 



auric ulis ovalibus operculatis: quad. ii. No. 513. p. 317- 



opereulo exili. Gm. Lin. 48. Arct. Zo'ol. i. 215. 



XS a species less common in Great Britain 

 than the smaller. It ranges high in the air for 

 food, and retires early in the summer. Is the 

 largest we have ; its extent of wing is fifteen 

 inches ; its length to the rump two inches eight 

 tenths ; that of the tajl one inch seven tenths. 

 The nose is slightly bilobated ; the ears small and 

 rounded ; on the chin is a minute verruca. Hair 

 on the body a reddish ash-color. 



They collect under eaves of buildings in vast 

 numbers. The Rev. Doctor Buchworth . in- 

 formed me that under those of Queen 's College, 

 Cambridge, he saw taken, in one night, one hun- 

 dred and eighty-five; the second night sixty- 

 three ; the third, two. 



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