180 HORSE-SHOE BAT. Class I. 



40. Horse- La Chauve-souris a fer a cheval. operculars, Cauda dimidia 



shoe. £)e Buffon Tom. viii. 131. corporis longitudine. Gm. 



7aZ?.xvii. xx. Lin. 50. 



. Vespertilio ferrum equinum. V. Horse-shoe Bat. Hist. quad. 



naso ferro equino simili, auri- ii. No. 512. p. 316. 

 bus caput aequantibus non 



JL HIS species was discovered by Dr. Latham* 

 at Dartford, Kent, who was so obliging 

 as to communicate it to me. They are found 

 in the greatest numbers in the salt-petre 

 houses belonging to the powder mills, and fre- 

 quent them during the evening for the sake of 

 the gnats which swarm there. They have been 

 also found during winter in a torpid state cling- 

 ing to the roof. They often feed on Chafers, 

 but only eat the body. 

 Descrip- The length from the nose to the tip of the tail 

 is three inches and a half; the extent fourteen. 

 At the end of the nose is an upright membrane 

 in form of a horse-shoe. Ears large, broad at 

 their base, inclining backwards ; but want the 

 little or internal ear. The color of the upper 

 part of the body is deep cinereous ; of the lower 

 whitish. 



* The celebrated author of our best works on ornithology, 

 now resident at Romsey. Ed. 



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