Pale spear-nosed bat Pale spear-nosed bat The pale spear-nosed bat "(Phyllostomus discolor)" is a species of phyllostomid bat from South and Central America. Pale spear-nosed bats are relatively robust for bats. Adults range from in total length, with an average wingspan of . Males are significantly larger than females, weighing an average of , compared with . The fur is variable in colour, and may range from a pale yellowish brown to a much darker, almost blackish shade, over most of the body. The chest and belly are much paler, varying from near white to frosted grey. The wings are large, with rounded
Colour Strike programmes (shot in colour), the colour signal from the telecine machine had to be switched off in the vision mixing desk before being recorded to tape, but this was partly unsuccessful, leading to some film sequences being recorded with an odd array of pale colours (as for items where the colour is a mix of two primary colours, only one primary colour would show). This is prominent in the second series of "Hadleigh", for example. The first "Coronation Street" to be broadcast in colour was transmitted on 3 November 1969, but due to the strike, some 1970–71 episodes, including the