IJ4 BAT; ClafsL 



Genus XX. The B A T. 



Species I. The fliort-eared BAT. 



Verperfilio, Bat, Flitter, or Flut- bus omnibus pentadaflylis. 



'ttrr Moufe. Rail fyu. quad. Brijpin quad. 158. 



'24.3, ... j^2 chauve fourij De Buffotij 



^\^tt-&ssz^Englifii'2i,ZX,'E.dnjQ.a-v. -Tow. viii. 1 13. Tab. 16. 



'2.01. f. 2. Vefpcrtil:om<:riuus. £.z«._/v/?.47. 



S'&b. Mus.'i. V.caudatus nafooycqaelimplici. 



The Rear Moufe. Charlton ex. Faun. Suec. 2 . 



'80. V. rn^jor. Klein quad. 6 \. 



Meyer s an. i. Tab. 3. Vefpeitiik). Pliuii Lib. X. 6. 



Ge/ner av. ^66. 61. 



Vefperulio murini colons, pedU Br.ZojL 55. 



Brii. Yftlum Fori. Morcego 



Fre?i. LaChaure foaris Germ Speckmaus, Fledermaaa 



JtaL Nottola, Notula, Spor- Dut. Viederniuys 



tegHone.Viip'iftrcllc', S^jjcd. Ladeilap, Fladermus 



Vilpiitrello . Dan. Flagerniuus,Aftenbakkg. 

 Span. MurcielagG, McrQiegalo 



TFI 1 S fingukr animal was placed by Pliny, 

 Gefurr, Aldrovandus., and fome other naturalilh, 

 among the birds : they did not confider, that it wanted 

 every charafter of that order of animals, except the 

 power of flying : if the irregular, uncertain, an4 

 jerking motion * of the bat in the air, can merit the 

 name of fii2;hr. No birds whatfoever are furnillied 

 with teeth, or bring forth their young alive, and fuckle 

 them : were other notes wanting, thefe would be fuf- 

 ficient to determine that the bat is a quadruped. 



* The Er.glijh fynonym of this animal, flitter, or Flutter movfc, 

 is very expreifive of its atlion in the air, 



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