ii6 LONG-EARED BAT. Clafs I. 



Towards the latter end of fummer, the bat retires 

 info caves, ruined buildings, the roofs of houfes, or 

 liollow trees •, where it remains the whole winter, in a 

 ilate of inadion ; iufpended by the hind feet, and 

 clofely wrapped up in the membranes of the fore- 

 feet. 



The voice of the bat is fomewhat like that of the 

 moufe ', but very low, and weak. Ovid takes notice 

 both of that, and the derivation of its Latin name. 



Lucemque perofae 

 Nodle x'olame, feroque tenenc a vefpere nomen. 



Minimam pro corpore vocem 

 Emittunt peraguiitque levi Itiidore querelas. 



Met. lib. iv. 10. 



II. The LONG-jEARED BAT. 



Edw. a'u. 201. f. 3. Vefpertilio auritus. Lin.fyfi. 47. 



Alh.\\\. Tab. 101. V. auritus, nafo oreque fimplici. 



La perice chauve fouris de notre auriculis duplicacis, capkema* 



pays. BriJTon quad. 160. joribus. Faun, Suec. 3. 



L'oreillar. Dc Buffon^Tom. vm. Br. Zoo/. ^6. 



118. 127. Tab. 17. f. I, 



THIS fpecies is much inferior in fizc to the for- 

 mer : the length being only an inch and three 

 quarters ; and the extent of the fore-legs feven inches. 

 The principal diftindion, between this and the com- 

 mon kind, is the ears ; which in this are above an inch 

 Jong, very thin, and alm.oil tranfparent : within each 

 of ihcfe is a IclTcr ear, or at leaft a membrane refem- 

 blingone; which, as Mf. Ed-wards obferves, may pof- 

 fibly itrve ns a valve to cloie the largerj in the lleeping 

 i;u'.e of tliis animal. 



Clafs II. 



