. The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. 72 MAMMALIA. Two or three species are known, of moderate but not large size.* One was taken in the act of sucking; blood from the neck of a Horse, by Mr. Darwin. It is probable that their external similitude to the Phyllostomes has occasioned the latter to be accused of a sanguivorous propensity, for which their structure seems to be at most but partially adapted, while that of the present genus is obviously expressly designed for this mode of life.
. The animal kingdom, arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. 72 MAMMALIA. Two or three species are known, of moderate but not large size.* One was taken in the act of sucking; blood from the neck of a Horse, by Mr. Darwin. It is probable that their external similitude to the Phyllostomes has occasioned the latter to be accused of a sanguivorous propensity, for which their structure seems to be at most but partially adapted, while that of the present genus is obviously expressly designed for this mode of life. Compare the figures given of the dentition of the two genera.] In the second grand tribe of Bats, the index has only one bony phalanx, while all the other fingers have two. This tribe also requires to be divided into several subgenera. The Megaderms (Megaderma, Geof.)— Have the nasal membrane more complicated than in the Phyllostomes; the tragus large and most commonly bifurcated; the conch of the ears very ample, and joined together on the top of the head; the tongue and the lips smooth; interfemoral membrane entire, and there is no tail. They have four incisors below, but none above, and tlieir intermaxillaries remain carti- jpf |i^p|||v Ajjj|. m^ laginous. [Their wings are remarkably ample, the whole M'.'. ' ^\ WA HPt i **\ cutaneous system of these animals being excessively de- veloped. Four species are known; two from Africa, the others from the Indian archipelago. One of the former (31. frons, fig. 14) has the body covered with long hair, of most delicately fine texture; it constitutes the division Lavia of Gray.] They are distinguished by the figure of the leaf, like the Phyllostomes. The Rhinolphines {Rhinolophus, Geof. and Cuv. [Noc/ilio Bechst.]), vulgarly termed Horse-shoe Bats. These have the nose furnished with very complicated membranes and crests resting on the forehead, and al- together presenting [more or less] the figure of a horse- shoe ; their tail is long
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