. The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization; forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. Order 3. CARKAIIIA. 59 an organ of suction ; and their lips also have tubercles sj-mmetrically ai-ranged. They are American animals, which run along the ground with more facility than the other Bats, and have a habit of sucking the blood of animals. 1. Tailless Phyllostomes (Vampyrus, Spix). Tlie Vampyre [of authors] {Vesp, spectrum, Lin.)—<fig. 12.) Tins animal is reddish-brown, and as large as a Magpie. It has been accused of causing the death
. The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization; forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy. Zoology. Order 3. CARKAIIIA. 59 an organ of suction ; and their lips also have tubercles sj-mmetrically ai-ranged. They are American animals, which run along the ground with more facility than the other Bats, and have a habit of sucking the blood of animals. 1. Tailless Phyllostomes (Vampyrus, Spix). Tlie Vampyre [of authors] {Vesp, spectrum, Lin.)—<fig. 12.) Tins animal is reddish-brown, and as large as a Magpie. It has been accused of causing the death of men and animals by sucking their blood; but the truth appears to be, that it inflicts only very small wounds, which may sometimes prove dangerous from the eflects of the climate. [Tliere are several others, certain of which compose the divisions Madaicuits and Arctibeus, Leach, LopJtostoma, Orb., (which is very like a Desmodus ex- ternally,) Diphylla, Spix, and Carollia, Gray,—founded on trivial modifications of the form of the nose-leaf, tragus, and interfemoral membrane.] 2. Phyllostomes with the tail enveloped in the interfe • moral membrane. The Javelin Ph. (Vesp. haslatus, Lin.)—The leaf shaped like the head of a javelin, with its edges entire. [Also various others, some of winch constitute lfacroj^%Wuffs and Brachyphylla, Gray.] 3. Phyllostomes with the tail free above the membrane. Ph. creimlatum, Geof.—The leaf indented on the side. M. Geoffiroy distinguishes from the Phyllostomes those species which have a" narrow extensile tongue, furnished with papillaj resembling hairs. He de- signates them Glossophagues {Glossophaga). All the species are Ukewise from America. [These also have been subdivided, according to the presence or absence of a short tail, and other frivolous characters into Phyllopliora and Anoura, Gray, Monophyllu3, Leach, and GlossopMga, as restricted. Spix applies to one of them {Gl. amplexicaudata, Phyllophora of Gray) the term Sanguisu
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