Madagascan rousette, Rousettus madagascariensis 1, horse-shoe bat, Rhinolophus species 2, long-eared bat, Plecotus auritus 3, eastern red bat, Lasiurus borealis4, sea bat, Ogcocephalidae 5, and spectral bat, Vampyrum spectrum 6. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Moses Harris from William Frederic Martyn’s A New Dictionary of Natural History, Harrison, London, 1785. Pseudonym of William Fordyce Mavor, Scottish priest, teacher and writer, 1758-1837.

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