PERUVIAN BAT. 
The same may be said of several other ani- 
mals." 
Pennant also describes a variety of the Pe- 
ruvian Bat; which, he observes, has a large 
head, and hanging lips, like the chaps of a Mas- 
tiff. The nose is bilobated ; the upper lip divi- 
ded ; and the ears are straigiit, long, narrow, and 
tharp-pointed. The teeth are like the former. 
Thfe tail is short; yet a fevv^ joints of it stand 
out of the membrane, which extends far be- 
vond it; it is angular, and ends in a point. 
The claws of the hind-feet are large, hooked, 
and compressed sideways. The membranes 
of the wings are dusky, and very thin. The 
far, on the head and back, is brown ; that on 
the belly, cinereous. The length of this Bat 
is about five inches. These Bats inhabit Peru> 
and the Musquito shore." 
According to Seba, there is, in the legs of. 
the Peruvian Bat, an extraordinary conforma- 
tion : the tibia, and fibula, as he describes 
them, being placed separately one from the 
other, and each invested by if's own distinct 
hairy skin. These, however, are generally 
thought to be nothing more than the two car- 
j tilaginous 
