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The greater number of the eight species of these bats occur in Tibet and the 
Himalaya, some of them also extending into the highlands of India and Ceylon; 
there is also one from Java and some of the other Malayan Islands, and another 
from Japan. The white-bellied tube-nosed bat (H. leucogaster) of the Himalaya is 
remarkable for its brilliant coloration, the fur being golden-orange on the head, 
the base of the hairs greyish, and on the back 
pale rufous-brown with grey at the base. The 
fur on the membrane is bright ferruginous, the 
upper surface of the inter-femoral membrane and 
toes being well covered. Beneath, the fur is white 
throughout on the chin and throat, the rest of the 
lower parts having bicoloured fur—grey at the 
base with white tips. 
Writing of its habits in the North-West 
Himalaya, Captain Hutton says that it occurs 
at an elevation of about 5500 feet, but does not 
appear to be common in the hills, the Dehra-Doon 
being probably its true locality there. An example which Hew into a room at 
Jeripani (below Masuri), at night, kept low down in its flight, instead of soaring 
towards the ceiling, passing under the tables and chairs, as if afraid to emerge 
into the broad glare of the lamps. This is likewise the mode of flight when 
searching for insects in the open fields, where it skims closely and somewhat 
leisurely over the surface of the crops and grass. 
HEAD OF TUBE-NOSED BAT.— After Dobsou. 
Daubenton’s Bat, Natterer’s Bat, etc. 
Genus Vespertilio. 
Daubenton’s bat ( Vespertilio daubentoni), represented in the illustration 
on p. 284, is a well-known although local British species, which we select as our 
first example of the genus Vespertilio, second only in point of the number of its 
species to Vesper ugo, and the type of the family Vespertilionidce. The bats of this 
genus have 38 teeth, of which there are § incisors and ^ cheek-teeth on each side of 
the jaws. As Dr. Dobson observes, they are easily recognised by the circumstance that 
the upper incisor teeth are so implanted in the jaw as to diverge from one another; 
and also by the large number of the cheek-teeth, which exceeds that obtaining in 
any insectivorous bats yet noticed, and is only equalled in four other genera, of 
which three are mentioned later on. Moreover, the second cheek-tooth in the 
upper jaw, belonging to the premolar series, is invariably characterised by its 
minute size. Then, again, the ear has a characteristic elongated oval form, and its 
tragus is very narrow. 
The genus appears to be of unusually wide geographical distribution, and 
is found throughout the temperate and tropical regions of both hemispheres. 
“ Most of the species,” writes Dr. Dobson, “ appear to be dwellers in woods, some 
either habitually or occasionally live in caves or under the roofs of houses. The 
position of attachment of the wings to the hinder extremities, and the size of the 
