File:Image from page 73 of "A history of British quadrupeds, including the Cetacea" (1874) (20133031754).jpg
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[edit]DescriptionImage from page 73 of "A history of British quadrupeds, including the Cetacea" (1874) (20133031754).jpg |
Title: A history of British quadrupeds, including the Cetacea Identifier: cu31924003031139 Year: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookyear1874">1874</a> (<a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookdecade1870">1870s</a>) Authors: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookauthorBell_Thomas_1792_1880">Bell, Thomas, 1792-1880</a>; <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookauthorTomes_Robert_F">Tomes, Robert F</a>; <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookauthorAlston_Edward_Richard_1845_1881">Alston, Edward Richard, 1845-1881</a> Subjects: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=booksubjectMammals">Mammals</a> Publisher: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookpublisherLondon_J_Van_Voorst">London, J. Van Voorst</a> Contributing Library: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=bookcontributorCornell_University_Library">Cornell University Library</a> Digitizing Sponsor: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?tags=booksponsorMSN">MSN</a>
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Text Appearing After Image: BECHSTEIN'S BAT. Vespertilio Bechsteinii. Ears oval, rather longer than the head ; tragus narrow, falciform, not half the length of the auricle ; fur reddish grey ahove, greyish white beneath. Vesperiilio Becliateinii, Leisler. Kuhl, Duet. Flederm. p. 30, sp. 2, t. xxii. Desmab. Mammal, p. 135. Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 21. This handsome and striking species is rare in this country, heing only known as British from the occur- rence of specimens taken by Mr. Millard in the New Forest, and now in the British Museum. This locality corresponds with its habits as detailed by the Continental naturalists, who state that it resorts exclusively to the hollow trees in the midst of forests, never approaching towns or retiring to buildings. It shuns even all associa- tion with other species of Bats, congregating in small groups of about a dozen, the largest number observed together being thirteen, all of which were females. The general resemblance of this species to V. murinus and to V. Nattereri, with both of which it agrees in the
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