The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . t continent,as iV. Heathii, Horsf., from India, and another from Java. Mr. Gray, indeed, includes most of the European Batsin his Scotophilus ; but Temminck, who rejects Pleolus even, suggests, and I think with reason, that the presentalso is a superfluous division, based on insutticient characters. The Oreillards and Barbastellcs are subordinateto Vespertilio, also Furia, F. Cuv., (Furiptcrus, Bonap.) which has the tail partly cartilaginous, Naialus, Gray,wh
The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization : forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . t continent,as iV. Heathii, Horsf., from India, and another from Java. Mr. Gray, indeed, includes most of the European Batsin his Scotophilus ; but Temminck, who rejects Pleolus even, suggests, and I think with reason, that the presentalso is a superfluous division, based on insutticient characters. The Oreillards and Barbastellcs are subordinateto Vespertilio, also Furia, F. Cuv., (Furiptcrus, Bonap.) which has the tail partly cartilaginous, Naialus, Gray,wherein the heel-bone extends the whole length of the interfenioral membrane ; Romiciiis, Gray, and Miniopteriis,Bonap. Atalapha, Rafin., is said to have no incisors, Ilypexodon, Kafin., to have incisors (of the usual number,six) in the lower jaw only ; Lasitirus h&shacn applied to a small group with the interfemoral mcnilirane hairy;and, lastly, Pachyotus and Nyctalus, Bowditch, are divisions of no value whatever. It is to be regretted thatnatiualists cannot occupy their time more profitably than in coining supernumerary Sometimes written Xijctkfjtii.—Ed. 76 MAMMALIA. Many of the foregoing animals fly with their yoving invoived in the interfemoral membrane,extremity of the tail in some is slightly prehensile. The We would remark, here, that the order Primnria, indicated at p. 43, resolves iuto twoprimary sections, of which the second is constituted by the Cheiroptera, as opposed to theremainder, or the Bimana and Quadrumana of Cuvier. We regard the Cheiroptera asdivisible into two groups only of the value of families, namely, Pteropidce, comprising thefrugivorous genera, and Vespertillonidce, comprehending all the remainder, which may pro-bably be reduced to seven or eight primary divisions. The remains of insectivorous Cheiropterahave been detected in the European tertiary deposits.]* The Colugos {Galaopithecus, Pallas)—DiflPer generically from the Bats in having th
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