Spectral bat or great false vampire bat, Vampyrum spectrum. Spectre bat, Vespertilio spectrum. After an illustration in Schreber's Animal Illustrations after Nature, 1776. Copperplate engraving by Taylor fom George Shaw’s General Zoology: Mammalia, G. Kearsley, Fleet Street, London, 1800.

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