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INSECT-EATING BATS.
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traversing the wires of a cage, in which situation I
first observed the fact.” [1]
Genus Precorus. (GEOFE.)
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.
° =o i J—1 a 2—2 . ae teeth,—inc. =; can. =; f. mol. =; mol. Ee es 4:06.
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LONG-EARED BAT.
Our common species, known as the Oreillard, or Long-eared Bat, (Plecotus auritus, GEOFF.) is scarcely less abundant than the Pipistrelle; it
- ↑ Brit. Quad. p. 27.
