Gray slender loris, Loris lydekkerianus 176, javelin bat or greater spear-nosed bat Phyllostomus hastatus 177, large-headed bat or Pallas's tube-nosed bat, Nyctimene cephalotes 178, and shrew bat or Pallas's long-tongued bat, Glossophaga soricina 179. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Jacques de Seve from James Smith Barr’s edition of Comte Buffon’s Natural History, A Theory of the Earth, General History of Man, Brute Creation, Vegetables, Minerals, T. Gillet, H. D. Symonds, Paternoster Row, London, 1807.

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