B A T. 
367 
Autre Chauvre-fouris de Buffon, X. 92. tab. xx. fig. 282. 
B. with the noftrils open for a great way up the 
nofe : hair on the forehead and under the chin very 
long: ears long and narrow : upper part of the head 
and body of a reddifh brown ; the lower of a dirty 
white tinged with yellow : tail included in the mem¬ 
brane. A fin all fpecies. 
B, with a head fhaped like that of a moufe : top of 28 3 - 
the nofe a little bifid: ears fhort, broad, and 
rounded : no cutting teeth ; two canine in each jaw : 
tail very long, inclofed in the membrane, which is 
of a conic fhape : head, body, and the whole upper 
fide of the membrane, which inclofes the tail, co¬ 
vered with long very foft hair of a bright tawny co¬ 
lor ; lighted on on the head and beginning of the 
back •, the belly paler : at the bafe of each wing a 
white fpot: wings thin, naked and dufky : bones of 
the hind legs very {lender : length, from nofe to 
tail, ten inches and a half; tail one inch eight- 
tenths ; extent of wings ten and a half. 
Inhabits North America . Communicated by Mr. 
Ajhton Blackburne ** 
* The Rev. Mr. Clayton mentions another fpecies of North Ame- 
can Bat; large, with great cars, and long itraggling hairs. Pbih 
Nranf. abridg . III. 594. 
Beard¬ 
ed. 
New 
York. 
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