. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. 2G6 AATUIiAL SISTOEY. fruit diet, or consume animal food only as an exceptional daiiity; whilst the others almost as exclusively find their nourishment in the swarms of insects wliich everywhere people the air. Of the latter, how- ever, some few feed upon fruits, and others are said to diversify their insect fare by occasionally suck- ing the blood of other animals, and even of man himself. In the Frugivorous, or Fmit-eating Bats, the crowns of the molar teeth are smooth, wath a central farrow running in the du-ection of the length of the
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. 2G6 AATUIiAL SISTOEY. fruit diet, or consume animal food only as an exceptional daiiity; whilst the others almost as exclusively find their nourishment in the swarms of insects wliich everywhere people the air. Of the latter, how- ever, some few feed upon fruits, and others are said to diversify their insect fare by occasionally suck- ing the blood of other animals, and even of man himself. In the Frugivorous, or Fmit-eating Bats, the crowns of the molar teeth are smooth, wath a central farrow running in the du-ection of the length of the jaw; in the Insectivorovis forms, on the contrary, the molars show sharp tubercles separated by transverse fuiTows, generally producing a sort of W-like pattern on each tooth. These two types of tooth-structure are associated in each case with other characters. The Bats ai'e thus di\ided into two great groups, generally regarded as sub-ordei" HE\D 01 THE K\LONO CHAPTER II. SUB-ORDER I.—MEGACHIROPTERA, OR LARGE BATS. FAMILY I.—, OR FRI'IT-EATING BAT-S. acteristics of Fnut-Eating Bats—Distribution—Diet—Flying Fox of Ceylon : its Habits, as described by Sir E. Tennent —The Fliglit of the Ptej-opiite—Known to the Ancients—The Fruit Bats in the Zoological Gardens—Indian Flying Fox—Diet—Dissipated Habits—Great Kalong—Linnceus's Description—In their Dormitories—NicoBAH, IIaned, .Iapankse, and Grey Fruit Bats-Grey-headed Fruit Bat—Gould's Fruit Bat—Roussette—Egyptian Fruit Bat—Hottentot Fruit Bat—Maritime Fruit Bat—Margined Fruit Bat—White's Fruit Bat—Hammer-headed Bat—Harpy Bat—Greater Harpy Bat—Cloaked Fruit Bat Dwarf Long-tongued Fruit Bat—Black-cheeked Fruit Long-tongued Fruit Bat. The fruit-eating Bats {Frugivwa, Wagner), called Me(iachiropii>ra, or L,irge Bats, by Mr. , on account of the comparatively large size of most of the species, are charactei'ised by having the face elongated and
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