. . \ \. SOME STRANGE MAMMALS 175 The South is the native country of the majority of wing-handed animals. Even in Italy, Greece, and Spain thenumber of bats is surprising. There, according to Brehm,who studied them industriously, as evening draws nigh, theycome out of their nooks and corners, not by hundreds, butby thousands. Out of every house, every old stone wall,every rocky hollow, thej flutter, as if a great army werepreparing for a parade, and the entire horizon is literallyfilled with them. THE BAT The Red Bat is the commonest
. . \ \. SOME STRANGE MAMMALS 175 The South is the native country of the majority of wing-handed animals. Even in Italy, Greece, and Spain thenumber of bats is surprising. There, according to Brehm,who studied them industriously, as evening draws nigh, theycome out of their nooks and corners, not by hundreds, butby thousands. Out of every house, every old stone wall,every rocky hollow, thej flutter, as if a great army werepreparing for a parade, and the entire horizon is literallyfilled with them. THE BAT The Red Bat is the commonest one in the United States,.It is a little greature, hiding in the dense foliage of somelarge tree or under the eaves of a barn during the day andflitting erratically to and fro at night in search of the largenight-flying moths and such other small game as may beon the wing. The brown bat is more southerly in its homethan the red bat, seldom occurring north of the Ohio is somewhat larger than the red bat, but its habits arethe same. In the early evening it
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