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fhort, and the hinder legs are {lender, and not very long: the wings formed of the 
fore-feet are large 5 they meet over the back, and extend to a vaft width, when opened : 
the membranes which compofe them are thin, but very tough, and of a dun colour. 
The whole body is covered with a foft and fine down ; the back is of a very deep 
olive colour, with an admixture of a footy black : the belly is paler, but of the fame 
tinge ; both the olive and the finoaky and dingy black are eafily diftinguilhable in it % 
the front of the head is paler than any other part, and the ears are yet paler than 
that. 
This is common in the caverns of rocks, and in buildings of all parts of America s 
and flies about in an evening, juft in the manner of our bat, 
Vefpertilio caudatus nafo foliato obverfe cordato . 
The tailed Vefpertilio , with a foliated and oh- flptttjj Q30ttf£» 
verfely cor dated nofe . 
This is of a middle fize, between our common bat and the laft defcribed, and is a 
very Angular creature: the head is large, in proportion to the body; the ears are 
fhort, eredt, and patulous; the eyes are fmall, black, and prominent: the mouth is 
large, and well furnifhed with teeth : the nofe is of a very odd figure, fomewhat di¬ 
vided at the end, and foliated, as in the former, but not pointed, but obverfely cor- 
dated ; the heart part or emarginated end being the extremity : the neck is fhort and 
very thick ; the fhoulders are large; the body is flefhy; the back rounded, but the 
belly fomewhat flat : the tail is fhort and fmall; the hinder legs very {lender and long, 
efpecially in the lower joint; the wings formed of the expanded fore-feet are broad and 
brown: the fur of the whole body is Abort and thick; it is of a dulky ferrugineous 
colour, and fomewhat paler on the breaft than elfewhere; for on the belly it is as dark 
as on the back. 
This is frequent in the Dutch Spice-Iflands, and I don’t know that it is met with 
elfewhere. The Dutch call it by a name exprefling the Flying-moufe; and many 
authors, Glis volans. 
QJJ A D R U P E D S. 
Clafs the Fifth . 
J U M E N T A. | 
T H E teeth of the Jumenta are few in number, and difpofed in an irregular man¬ 
ner ; often they differ from one another extreamly in fize and figure. 
E L E P H A S. 
T HERE are no fore-teeth in the mouth of the Elephas: the upper canine 
teeth are very long; the anterior part of the head is alfo furniflhed with a very long 
and flexible probofcis: the teats are two, and they are fituated on the breaft. Of this 
Angular genus there is only one known fpecies. 
Elephas. ICfle ClepSatlt 
The fize of the elephant alone, had it no other diftin&ive character, would be fuf» 
ficient to make it known from all the other animals in the world ; but it has Angulari¬ 
ties of the moft ftriking and obvious kind, befide this. When at full growth, it 
meafures from feventeen to twenty feet in height, from the ground to the higheft part 
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