Class I. COMMON BAT. 187 



Lucemque perosas 

 Nocte volant, seroque tenent a vespere nomen. 



M inimam pro corpore vocem 

 Emittunt, peraguntque levi stridore querelas. 



Met. lib. iv. 10. 



Their little bodies found 

 No words, but murmur'd in a fainting sound. 

 In towns, not woods, the sooty bats delight, 

 And never till the dusk begin their flight j 

 Till Vesper rises with his evening flame ; 

 From whom the Romans have derived their name. 



Eusden. 



