148 COMMON BAT.» cate 
The principal diftin@ion between this and the — 
common kind, is the ears; which in this are above — 
an inch long, very thin, and almoft tranfparent: © 
within each of thefe is a lefler ear, or at leaft 
a membrane refembling one; which, as Mr, 
Edwards obferves, may poffibly ferve as a valve to 
clofe the larger, in the fleeping ftate -of this a- 
nimal. 
41.CoMMON. Vefpertilio. Bat, Flitter, or lis. Briffan quad. 158. 
Flutter Moufe. Raiz fyn. La chauve iouris. De Buffon, 
‘Tab: 36: 
quad. 243. 
Short-eared Exgh/h Bat. Edw. 
av. 201. f. z. 
Tom. Vili, 113. 
Vefpertilio murinus. Lin. /yft. 
= 
ye 
V. caudatus nafo oreque fim- 
Seb. Mus. 1. 
The Rear Moufe. Charlion  plici. Faun. Suec. 2. 
ex. 80. V. major. Klein quad. 61. 
Meyer’s an 1. 'Tab. 3. Vefpertilio.  Phnii Lib. x, 
Ge/ner av. 766. 6. 61. | 
Vefpertilio murinicoloris, pe- Br. Zool. 55. Syn. quad. No, 
dibus omnibus pentadacty- 291. 
Brit. Ytlum Port. Morcego 
Fren. La Chauve fouris ‘Germ. Speckmaus, Fleder- 
ftal, Nottola, Notula, Spor- maus 
teglione, Vifpriftrel- Dut. |Viedermuys 
lo, Vilpiftrello Swed. Laderlap, Fladermus — 
Span. Murcielago, Morcie- Daz. Flagermuus, Aften- 
galo bakke 
HIS fingular animal was placed by Péuy, 
Gefner, Aldrovandus, and fome other natu- 
ralifts, among the birds: they did not confider, 
that it wanted every character of that order of 
animals, except the power of flying: if the irre- 
gular, 
