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COMMON BAT. 



Class I. 



44. Common. Vespertilio. Bat, Flitter, or 



Flutter Mouse. Rail syn. 



quad. 243. 

 Short-eared English Bat. Edit). 



av. 201. f. 2. 

 Seb. Mus. \. 

 The Rear Mouse. Charlton ex. 



80. 

 Meyer s an. i. Tab. 3. 

 Gesner av. 766. 

 Vespertilio murini coloris, pe- 



dibus omnibus pentadacty- 



lis. Brisson quad. 158. 

 La chauvesouris. DeBuffon, 



Tom. viii. 113. Tab. l6. 

 Vespertilio murinus. Gm.Lin. 



48. 

 V. caudatus naso oreque sim- 



plici. Faun. Suec. 2. 

 V. major. Klein quad- 6l. 

 Vespertilio. Plinii Lib. x. 6. 



61. 

 Br. Zool. 55. Hist. quad. ii. 



JVo. 519. p. 320. Arct, 



Zool. i. p. 215. 



Brit. Ystlum 



Fren. La Chauve souris 



Ital. Nattola, Notula, Spor- 



teglione, Vispristrello, 



Vilpistrello 

 Span. Murcielago, Morcie- 



galo 



Port. Morcego 



Germ. Speckmaus, Fleder* 



maus 

 Dut. Vledermuys 

 Swed. Laderlap, Fladermus 

 Dan. Flagermuus, Aften- 



bakke. 



X HIS singular animal was placed by Pliny> 

 Gesner, Aldrovandus, and some other natural- 

 ists, among the birds ; they did not consider, 

 that it wanted every character of that order of 

 animals, except the power of flying ; if the irre- 

 gular, uncertain, and jerking motion* of the 



* The English synonym of this animal, Flitter, or Flutter 

 mouse, is very expressive of its action in the air. 



