. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . Utm^^2)uok- ^/uu a^rre-ctiu). j:,^AUn7vdAl. ^i^b. ^0 ^^ ( 95 )The Batt or Flutter-Moufe, Numb. CI. IS a Creature between a Bird and a Beaft, of which there are threeKinds, that we know of, viz. the fmall common fort, frequent inEngland, another fort about one fourth bigger than the commonwith large double Ears about an Inch and a half long; and a thirdKind brought from the Indies, one of which is now in the Pofleffionof Mr. Dandridge, whole Body is twelve Inches long, br
. A natural history of birds : illustrated with a hundred and one copper plates, curiously engraven from the life . Utm^^2)uok- ^/uu a^rre-ctiu). j:,^AUn7vdAl. ^i^b. ^0 ^^ ( 95 )The Batt or Flutter-Moufe, Numb. CI. IS a Creature between a Bird and a Beaft, of which there are threeKinds, that we know of, viz. the fmall common fort, frequent inEngland, another fort about one fourth bigger than the commonwith large double Ears about an Inch and a half long; and a thirdKind brought from the Indies, one of which is now in the Pofleffionof Mr. Dandridge, whole Body is twelve Inches long, breadth, whenthe Wings were expanded, two Foot, its Head and Neck refembling aFox both in Colour and Shape, the reft of the Body and Wings is the largeft I ever faw: In the fmall ones there is no remarkableDifference, but the fize of their Parts. Thefe Animals partake of thefour-footed Kind in the Make of the Head, which agrees with thofe ofthe Moufe or Rat kind; the fhape of the Trunk of their Bodies like-wife is much the fame5 and are both covered with Hair: They alfobring forth their young ones perfe(ftly formed, like the four-footed kind,and give them fuc
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