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BAT. 
agitating the air, in that hot climate, in fo pleafing 
a manner, as to fling the fufferer into a ftill founder 
fleep *•. It is therefore very unfafe to reft either in 
the open air, or to leave open any entrance to thefe 
dangerous animals : but they do not confine them-’ 
felves to human blood ; for M. Condamine ft fays, 
that in certain parts of America they have deftroyed 
all the great cattle introduced there by the mif- 
fionaries. 
1 3 . Lesser. B. with head like a grehound : large 
teeth like the former > ears long, broad, and 
naked : whole body covered with foft fhort hair 
of a ftraw color: fhaped like the other in all re- 
fpedis: length, eight inches three quarters; ex¬ 
tent, two feet two inches. Place unknown to 
the gentleman who favored me with it. 
275 Spectre, Andira-guacu, vefpertiliocornu- datus, nafo infundibuliformi 
tus, Pifo Braffl, 190. Marcgrave Lanceolato. Lin. fyfi. 46. Klein 
Brajil, 213. _ _ quad. 6z. 
Canisvolans maxima auritafacm. Pteropus auricnlis longis, patn- 
exNov. Hifpania. Seb. Muf. I. lis, nafo membrana antrorfum 
tab. lvii. inflexa audio. Briffon quad. 154. 
Vefpertilio fpedlrum. V. ecau- Le Vampire, de Buff on, X. 55. 
B. with a long nofe: large teeth : long, broad and 
upright ears: at the end of the nofe a long conic 
eredt membrane, bending at the end, and flexible : 
hair on the body cinereous, and pretty long: wings 
full of ramified fibres : the membrane extends from 
hind leg to hind leg: no tail; but from the rump 
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* Ulloas <voy. I. 61. t S. America, 85. 
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