WINGED QUADRUPEDS. 
BAT. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Teeth erect, sharp-pointed, and standing contiguous to 
each other. 
Long extended toes to the fore feet, connected together by 
membranes extending to the hind legs. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Vespertieio murinus. V. caudatus, naso oreque simplici, auri- 
culis capite minoribus. Linn. Syst. 
Nat. Gmel. 1 . p. 48. 
Tailed Bat, with the lips and nose 
simple j ears smaller than the head. 
Vespertilia murini coloris, auriculis 
simplicibus. JBriss. Quadr. p. 158. 
n. 1. 
Common Bat. . . , Sm. Buff. v. 4. p. 317. ph 92. Penn. 
Hist. Quadr. 2. p.319. Beta. Quadr. 
p. 474. Shaw Gen. Zool. p. 123. 
Where swallows in the winter season keep. 
And where the drowsy bat and dormouse sleep. 
Gay. 
The Count de Buffbn having one day descended 
into the caverns of Arcy, to examine the stalactites, 
