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the common kind, is the ears, which in this are 

 above an inch long, very thin, and almost trans^ 

 parent ; within each of these is a lesser ear, or 

 at least a membrane resembling one, which, as 

 Mr. Edzvards observes, may possibly serve as a 

 valve to close the larger, in the sleeping state of 

 this animal. 



Vespertilio Barbastellus. V. cau- La Barbastelle, De Buffon 43. Barbas- 

 datus, buccis elatis pilosis, Tom.viii. \30.Tab. x\x.Jig. telle. 

 auriculis magnis inferius an- 1. Schreher. 203. Tab. Iv. 



gulatis. Gm. Lin. 48. Hist, quad.ii. No, 517 • P- 3ig. 



X HE Barbastelle has a sunk fore-head ; long 

 and broad ears, the lower part of the inner sides 

 of which touch each other, and conceal the face 

 and head when looked at in front. The nose 

 is short ; the end flatted ; the cheeks full. The 

 upper part of the body is of a dusky brown ; the 

 lower ash-colored and brown. Its length to 

 the rump is about two inches ; that of the tail 

 nearly the same ; its extent ten and a half. 



Mr. Sowerby in his British Miscellany, p. 9. 

 Tab. v. first announced the discovery of this 

 species in England : it was found in the powder 

 mills at Dartford. Mr. Montagu observed it 

 about the same time in Devonshire, and has 

 given a full description of it in the ninth volume, 

 p. 171 of the Linncean Transactions. Ed. 



