BAT. 
extend three tendons, terminating at the edge of 
the membrane. By Seba’s figure the extent of the 
wings are two feet two inches; from the end of the 
nofe to the rump feven inches and an half. 
Inhabits South America: lives in the palm trees: 
grows very fat: called Vampyre by M. de Buffon , 
who fuppofes it to be the fpecies that fucks human 
blood : but neither Pifo , or any other writers who 
mention the fa6t, give the left defcription of the 
kind. 
Vefpertilio americanus vulgaris, tetrada<!dylis,pofticispentada&y- 
Seb. MuJ. I. tab. lv. Jig. 2. lis. Briffon quad. 161. 
Vefpertilio. V. ecaudatus, nafo La chauve fouris fer de Lance, 
foliato acuminato. Lin.jyft. 47. de Buffon. xiii. 226. tab. xxxiii. 
V. murini coloris pedibus anticis 
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B. with large pointed ears : an ereft membrane at 
the end of the nofe in form of the head of an an¬ 
cient javelin, having on each fide two upright pro- 
ceffes: no tail: fur cinereous : fize of a common 
bat. 
Inhabits the warm parts of America . 
Vefpertdli® 
