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Plate 191. The Bird figur’d in this Plate, I have feen at Mr. Shel- 
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 encompaffes 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 
ffiorter 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. Hampier, in his Voyage to the Bay of Campeachy , P. 96, 
fays, “ Whiftling-Duch are fomewhat lefs than our common Ducks, but not differ¬ 
ing from them in Shape or Colour; in flying, their Wings make a pretty Sort 
of loud Whiftling 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. 194, differs 
much from ours. 
Plate 201. The Reverend Mr. Hughes , in his Natural Hijlory of Bar- 
badoes , P. 68, defcribes a Bat different from any I have met with : He calls 
it the Cave-Bat. He fays, the Hebrew Name is Atalleeph , i. e. a Bird of 
JDarknefs. i( This Bat (fays he) hath its Name from the Place of its Refidence. 
It is often as big as a young Pigeon j 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; 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 Earbadoes , the fame fmall Bat we have in 
England. 
Whether the Cave-Bat hath a Tail, as the two Englifj Bats defcribed by me, 
P. 201, have, or not, Mr. Hughes does not inform us. There is, in the Re- 
pofitory of Sir Hans Sloane , a Bat from /Egypt y of a Size between this Cave- 
Bat , 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 Senle a Web-footed Beaft or Quadrupede, though they differ in 
many Refpedts: A Duck or other Water-Fowl hath the Toes webbed together 
with a ftrong, tough, though pliable Web, of a fmali Dimenfion, yet large 
enough to work in fo denfe 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 vaftly extended 
in Breadth, if compared with the Webs on the Feet of Fowls; the Reafon of 
which 
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