146 
XX. BAT. 
38. GREAT. 
S ASF, Crass I. 
D2 ven AV. | 
WINGED QUADER UP EI 
With long extended toes to the fore-feet, con- 
nected by thin membranes, extending to the 
hind-legs. : 
La nottule de Buffon VII. Tad. xviii. p. 128. 
Syn. quad. No. 287. 
S a fpecies lefs common in Great-Britain than 
the {maller. It ranges high in the air for food, 
and retires early in the fummer. 
Is the largeft we have: its extent of wing is 
fifteen inches: its length to the rump two inches 
eight tenths: of the tail one inch feven tenths. 
The nofe is flightly bilobated: ears fmall and — 
rounded: on the chin a minute verruca. Hair 
on the body a reddifh afh-color. 
They collect under eaves of buildings in vaft 
numbers. The Rev. Doctor Buckworth informed 
me that under thofe of Queen’s College, Cambridge, 
he faw taken in one night, one hundred and eighty- — 
five; the fecond night fixty-three ; the third, two. 
La 
