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Plate jgj . The Bird figur'd in this Plate* I have feen at Mr. Sbel- 
vocke’s Houfe, at* Greenwich. I obferved it to differ a little from that I drew 
my Figure from* viz. in having the fine Purple Colour* which encompafTes the 
Eyes on the Sides of the Head, to join on the Forehead, and encompafs the 
Bafe of the upper Mandible of the Bill ; the Bill itfelf alfo feemed a little 
fhorter in this fecond Bird, than in that I have figur’d. Mr. Shelvocke was 
pleafed to inform me, that the Portuguefe call it the Captain of Orronoco , and 
that it was brought from Brafil> by the Way of Lijbon . 
Plate 193, 4. Dampier , in his Voyage to the Bay of Campeachy t P. 96, 
fays, tc Whiftling-Ducks are fomewbat Jefs than our common Ducks, but not differ- 
ing from them in Shape or Colour ; in flying, their Wings make a pretty Sort 
of loud Whiffling Noife : They perch on Trees.” What Dampier has feen 
feems to be of the Species figur’d, Plate 193, for they indeed come pretty near 
our common Duck in Colour, I think what I have defcribed, P. 1 94, differs 
much from ours, 
Plate 20 r. The Reverend Mr. Hughes , in his Natural Hijlory of Bar~ 
hadoes , P. 68, defcribes a Bat different from any I have met with : He calls 
it the Cave-Bat. He fays, the Hebrew Name is Atalleephy i. e. a Bird of 
Darknefs. “ This Bat (fays he) hath its Name from the Place of its Residence. 
It is often as big as a young Pigeon ; its Body is cover’d with a Snuff-colour’d 
foft Hair ; its Ears are more upright, and larger in Proportion than thofe of a 
Rat 5 and its whole Head, efpecially its Mouth and Nofe, fhorter and thicker. 
From the Extremity of one Wing, to that of the other extended, meafures 
eighteen Inches : Its Feet are guarded with fix fharp Talons, each turning 
inwards like Fifh-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 ex- 
amined. Mr. Hughes fays, they have alfo in £arbadoes 3 the fame fmall Bat we have in 
England. 
Whether the Cave-Bat hath a Tail, as the two Englifs Bats defcribed by me, 
P. 20i, have, or not, Mr. Hughes does not inform us. There is, in the Re- 
pofitory of Sir Hans Sloane , a Bat from Mgypt y of a Size between this Cave- 
Baty and my Great Bat from Madagafcar ; which Egyptian - Bat is Tail- 
lefs, and much refembles that of Madagafcar , defcribed in P. 180. of this 
Work, but much lefs. As a Duck is a Web-footed Bird, a Bat is 'juft in 
the fame Senfe a Web- footed Bead: or Quadrupede, though they differ in 
many Refpefls : A Duck or other Water-Fowl hath the Toes webbed together 
with a ffrong, tough, though pliable Web, of a fmall Dimenfion, yet large 
enough to work in fo denle a Medium as Water: The Bat hath the Legs 
forwards webbed principally, though thefe Webs are always joined to the hin- 
der Legs; the Webs are exceeding thin, foft and pliable, and vaffly extended 
in Breadth, if compared with the Webs on the Feet of Fowls ; the Reafon of 
which 
