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Title: The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Cuvier, Georges, baron, 1769-1832 Metcalf Collection (North Carolina State University) NCRS Blyth, Edward, 1810-1873 Mudie, Robert, 1777-1842 Johnston, George, 1797-1855 Westwood, J. O. (John Obadiah), 1805-1893 Carpenter, William Benjamin, 1813-1885
Subjects: Animals
Publisher: London : Wm. S. Orr and Co., Amen Corner, Paternoster Row
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Tub Ohkillards (Ilecuhis),—Which have the cars longer than the head, and joined above the cranium, as in the Megadenns,Khinopomos, &e. Their tragus is large and lanrcolatc, and there is an operculum to their auditoryorifice. k Fi,{. I^.—K«rs 01 Pl<:cotu9 auHtoi. The common species {Vetp. auritugy Lin.) is still moreabuiulaut in Fmnce tliau any of the Bats [and is equallyplentiful in Eniflaiul], inhabiting: houses, kitchens, &c. Itsears (fig. 18) are nearly as long- as its body [more than doublethe length of the head; yet, when reposing (as shown intig. 19), they are folded so as to be out of sight. Its peculiarshuffling gait, with the head raised, is dilferent from that ofthe Bats with short ears; and it may be tamed to hover aroundwith familiarity, and alight upon the hand for insect food. The Pi. brevimanusy Jeiiyus, is merely the young; but there ?«? are several exotic species.] We have also another, discovered by l^aubenton, withforming the equivalent division
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