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LONG-EARED BAT. 
where there are lighted candles, and the windows 
open. Several species of birds of the aquatic kind, 
when driven towards our shore by severe weather, 
and kept from retreating to land for security, when 
within'the sphere of light emanating from the 
Eddy stone lantern, become confounded, and are thus 
dashed by the waves against the edifice, and killed. 
The Stormy Petrel in particular, suffers thus during 
our severer storms. On the same principle also, 
a neighbour who rears great numbers of chicken, 
and is greatly troubled by the visits of Hawks, has 
now adopted the expedient of fastening a bottle on 
the top of a very long pole planted in the earth of 
his poultry-yard, and the Hawks now visit him, 
and hover aloft over the spot without being able to 
fix their eyesight on any object below them; so 
effectually does this bottle interfere with distinct 
vision that they cannot fix on their prey,—the 
dazzling and radiation paining and distressing 
them, they retire. 
Bats seem rather quarrelsome and resentful, 
they bite keenly when interfered with, and utter at 
the same time a squeaking noise occasionally rather 
loud and vehement. 
My captives w r ould run or straddle rather swiftly 
on a table, and I have seen them on the ground run 
as quickly wdien pursued as the greater part of small 
quadrupeds. I likewise think I have seen them 
move by a succession of springs performed by the 
hind legs. The scythe-like claw r s of their anterior 
limbs are employed only to cling momentarily to 
buildings, &c. as is their usual habit. I have seen 
a party of bats playing about an old outhouse, and 
each clinging repeatedly and for an instant to one 
particular spot of the building by these claws, as if 
to rest itself ; but as Mr. Bingley observes, if they 
are placed hanging by these claw r s, they directly re¬ 
verse their position and suspend themselves by the 
