Total length 5 inches: tail 1-1/2 inches.
This bat might be readily mistaken for the Carolina bat, (V. carolinensis, Geoff.) which it resembles in colour, but differs from it in being of a larger size, the ears broader and proportionally shorter, and an arquated tragus, curving in an almost luniform manner towards the anterior portion of the ear, like that of the V. _serotinus_, Daub. Geoff., though not so broad. The upper incisor teeth, like those of several of our species of bats, are not prominent; they are very much inclined forward, and do not rise at their tips above the level of the intermediate callosity.--JAMES.
[190] 1. _Canis latrans._--Cinereous or gray, varied with black above, and dull fulvous, or cinnamon; _hair_ at base dusky plumbeous, in the middle of its length dull cinnamon, and at tip gray or black, longer on the vertebral line; _ears_ erect, rounded at tip, cinnamon behind, the hair dark plumbeous at base, inside lined with gray hair; _eyelids_ edged with black, superior eyelashes black beneath, and at tip above; supplemental lid margined with black-brown before, and edged with black-brown behind; _iris_ yellow; _pupil_ black-blue; spot upon the lachrymal sac black-brown; rostrum cinnamon, tinctured with grayish on the nose; _lips_ white, edged with black, three series of black seta; _head_ between the ears intermixed with gray, and dull cinnamon, hairs dusky plumbeous at base; _sides_ paler than the back, obsoletely fasciate with black above the legs; _legs_ cinnamon on the outer side, more distinct on the posterior hair: a dilated black abbreviated line on the anterior ones near the wrist; _tail_ bushy, fusiform, straight, varied with gray and cinnamon, a spot near the base above, and tip black: the tip of the trunk of the tail, attains the tip of the os calcis, when the leg is extended; _beneath_ white, immaculate; _tail_ cinnamon towards the tip, tip black; posterior feet four-toed, anterior five-toed.
ft. in. Total length (excepting the hair at tip of tail) 3 9-1/2 Trunk of the tail 1 0-1/2 Hind foot os calcis to tip of claw 0 7-1/5 Fore foot elbow to tip of claw 1 0-3/4 Ears from top of head 0 4 Rostrum from anterior can thus of the eye 0 3-3/4