. Natural history with anecdotes: illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, etc., etc., etc . Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® « THE BATS. 35 it should be added, making allowance for proportion, thefull grown male bat, of the largest species, rarely exceedingtwelve inches in height from head to foot. Bats wings arehighly nervous and sensitive, so much so as to render theirowners almost independent of sight. Besides being welladapted for flight, says Dr. Percival Wright, they are stillcapable in a small measure of seizing,
. Natural history with anecdotes: illustrating the nature, habits, manners and customs of animals, birds, fishes, reptiles, insects, etc., etc., etc . Digitized by Microsoft® Digitized by Microsoft® « THE BATS. 35 it should be added, making allowance for proportion, thefull grown male bat, of the largest species, rarely exceedingtwelve inches in height from head to foot. Bats wings arehighly nervous and sensitive, so much so as to render theirowners almost independent of sight. Besides being welladapted for flight, says Dr. Percival Wright, they are stillcapable in a small measure of seizing, differing thus fromthe anterior limbs of Birds. Bats. Dr. Dobson divides the order Cheiroptera intotwo sub-orders: I, The Great Bats and II, The Smaller these there are numerous genera and a large number ofspecies. The Great Bats abound in the tropical and sub-tropical regions of the East, where they live on fruit, andfrom this circumstance are classified as fruit-eating bats,though they are sometimes called flying-foxes. The largestof these inhabit Sumatra and Java, living in large companies,sleeping by day and foraging by night. A
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