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Rh traversing the wires of a cage, in which situation I first observed the fact.”

The ears in this genus are greatly elongated, ordinarily erect, but capable of falling into elegant curves with minute transverse wrinkles: the aural membranes are united over the head, and the tragus is long and tapered to a blunt point. The muzzle is simple, the tail long, wholly enveloped. The teeth,—inc.; can.; f. mol.; mol. ː=36.

LONG-EARED BAT.

Our common species, known as the Oreillard, or Long-eared Bat, (Plecotus auritus, .) is scarcely less abundant than the Pipistrelle; it