Excerpt from Catalogue of the Chiroptera: In the Collection British Museum As this is the first attempt to present in monographic form (not being a compilation) a natural history of any of the Orders of Mam malia, it has been my object throughout, not only to render the discrimination of the different species as easy as possible to those not possessing any special knowledge of the subject, but also, by full descriptions of the species, and by notes on their comparative anatomy, habits, and relative position in the natural series, to make this work as complete a systematic treatise on the Chiroptera as the present state of our knowledge and the space at my disposal would admit of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.