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 The Batt or Flutter-Moufe, 



Numb. CI. 



IS a Creature between a Bird and a Beaft, of which there are three 

 Kinds, that we know of, viz. the fmall common fort, frequent in 

 England', another fort about one fourth bigger than the common 

 with large double Ears about an Inch and a half long; and a third 

 Kind brought from the Indies, one of which is now in the Pofleffion 

 of Mr. Dandridge, whole Body is twelve Inches long, breadth, when 

 the Wings were expanded, two Foot, its Head and Neck refembling a 

 Fox both in Colour and Shape, the reft of the Body and Wings black. 

 This is the largeft I ever faw : In the fmall ones there is no remarkable 

 Difference, but the fize of their Parts. Thefe Animals partake of the 

 four-footed Kind in the Make of the Head, which agrees with thofe of 

 the Moufe or Rat kind; the fhape of the Trunk of their Bodies like- 

 wife is much the fame 5 and are both covered with Hair: They alfo 

 bring forth their young ones perfe(ftly formed, like the four-footed kind, 

 and give them fuck. They partake of the Bird kind in having only 

 two Legs, befides the Hooks at the Pinions of their Wings : they have 

 the Power of flying, the Note or Voice of thefe Animals is between 

 the chirping of Birds, and the cry of four-footed Beafts ; it is faid the 

 Batt fleeps all the Winter in Holes of old Houfes and Walls; it very 

 rarely appears in the Day time, but flies in the Dusk of the Evening 

 only ^ the Wings of a Batt are wonderful ftrange, confiding of one intire 

 Skin, webb'd together like the Feet of Water-Fowl ; the Claws or Hooks 

 ©n the tops of the Wings this Creature makes ufe of, to hang by to 

 any thing it is minded ; whilft it is either feeding, or fleeping &'c. 



It feeds on Bacon, Cheefey &'c. This I had from Sir . Robert Abdy, 

 which he found with feveral more in a hollow Tree in his Park. 



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