Volume 22, Plate I / Mammalia (Mammals)

Greater Horse-Shoe Bat

Rhinolophus Ferrum-equinum

Distinguished by a curious horse-shoe shaped nasal membrane surmounted by an erect pointed crest, with a lanceolate posterior expansion, very large ovate ears, and long soft fur reddish-grey above and pale-grey beneath. It measures about three inches nine lines with a wing-span of fourteen inches, retreats to the darkest parts of caves, deserted quarries, and buildings in southern England, and the female commonly bears two young.