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different from any I have met with : he calls it 

 the Cave-Bat. He fays, the Hebrew narrte is 

 Atalleeph^ i. e. a bird of darknefs. " This Bat, 

 fays he, hath its name from the place of its re- 

 fidence. It is often as big as a young pigeon ; 

 its body is covered with a fnuff-coloured foft 

 hair ; its ears are more upright, and larger in 

 proportion than thofe of a rat ; and its whole 

 head, efpecially its mouth and nofe, ftiorter and 

 thicker. From the extremity of one wing to 

 that of the other extended, meafures eighteen 

 inches : its feet are guarded with fix lharp ta- 

 lons, each turning inwards like fifli-hooks." I 

 believe his giving it fix claws on a foot to be an 

 overfight ; for I have not obferved more than 

 five in thofe Bats I have examined. Mr. Hughes 

 fays, they have alfo, in Barbadoes, the fame 

 fmall Bat we have in England. 



Whether the Cave-Bat hath a tail, as the two 

 Englifh Bats defcribed by ine, p. 201, of my 

 Natural Hiftory, or not, Mr. Hughes does not 

 inform us. There is, in the Britifti Mufeum, a 

 Bat from Egypt, of a fize between this Cave- 

 Bat and my Great Bat from Madagafcar ; which 



Egyptian 



