5 I * * * * 6 
[Clafs I. 
. 
QUADRUPEDS. 
is alfo frequently obferved to fkim along the 
furface of pieces of water, in quell of gnats 
and infers : thefe are not its only food ; for 
it will eat meat of any kind that it happens to 
find hanging up, in a larder. 
The bat brings only two young at a time; 
which it fuckles from two teats placed on the 
breall, like thofe of the human race : for this 
reafon, Linnaeus has clalfed this animal in the 
fame order with mankind; and has honored 
both, with the common title of Primates , or 
chiefs of the creation. 
Towards the latter end of dimmer, the bat 
retires into caves, ruined buildings, the roofs 
of houfes, or hollow trees ; where it remains 
the whole winter, in a Hate of ina£iion ; fuf- 
pended by the hind feet, and clofely wrapped 
up in the membranes of the fore-feet. 
The voice of the bat is fomewhat like 
that of the moufe ; but very low, and weak. 
Ovid takes notice both of that, and the deri¬ 
vation of its latin name. 
Lucemque perofe 
Node volant, feroque tenent a vefpere nomen. 
minimam pro corpore vocem 
emittunt peraguntque levi ftridore querelas. 
Met. lib. 4. 10. 
SPECIES II. The Long eared BAT. 
Edzv. av. 201. f. 3. 
yllb. 3. Tab. 1 ox. 
La petite chauve fouris de notre 
pays. BriJJon quad. 226. 
L’oreillar Buffon. Tom. 8. 118. 
127. Tab. 17. £ 1. 
I S fpecies is much inferior in 
fize to the former : the length be¬ 
ing only an inch and three-quarters; 
and the extent of the fore-legs nine inches. 
The principal didin6lion, between this and 
the common kind, is the ears ; which in this 
Vefpertilio auritus. Lin. fyft- 32; 
V. caudatus, nafo oreque limpii- 
ci, auriculis duplicatis, capite 
majoribus. Ibid. 
are above an inch long, very thin, and almod 
tranfparent: within each of thele is a lefler 
ear, or at lead a membrane refembling one 
which, as Mr. Edwards obferves, may pof- 
fible ferve as a valve to clofe the larger, in the 
fleeping date of this animal. 
CLASS II. 
