Part I. 
Of ‘Birds. 
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E C T. IV. 
BIRDS . 
CHAP. I 
Of Land-Fowls , and of their Barts. 
A Great BAT or FLITTER-MOUSE of the 
WEST-INDIES. Vefpertilio Americ. The Bat 
Hands in the Rear of Bealls, and in the Front of 
Birds. I meet with no full Defcription of this kind. From 
his Nofe-end to his Anus almoll a foot. His Body almoft 
three inches over. His Head two inches and l long, one 
and I over. His Nofe like a Dogs, the end about l inch 
broad. His Ears extream thin, about * of an inch long,- 
and as broad; an inch and l afunder. His Eyes I of an inch 
long. He hath fix and thirty Teeth. In each Chap before^ 
are four little ones, roundifh, blunt, and almoft flat-ended; 
rather Tunfores , than Incifores. The next are large, lhaped 
like the Tusks of a Dog, two in each Chap. Next to thefe, 
two more of the firft kind in each Chap. And laft of all 
twenty Grinders. 
The Wings ftretched out, are two or three inches above 
a yard wide from end to end. The upper part of the Arm 
that governs them, about four inches long, andfleihy ,fc. 
an inch over. The next, or the Cubitus alfo four inches 
long, tendinous, and {lender, not above I of an inch thick. 
The Fingers are five, or four and a Thumb. Each hath 
three Bones. The firft Bone of the fore-Fmger or Thumb, 
is above I an inch long 5 the middlemoft, an inch and l; 
the laft very (Fort, fhcathed within a {harp and crooked 
Claw, I of an inch long, almoft like that of a Hawk. The 
firft Bone of the next Finger, is above three inches long 5 
the middlemoft , but I of an inch; the laft, about l an 
inch 5 having a very little Claw. The firft Bone of the 
third or middle Finger, is four inches long 5 the middle¬ 
moft, 
