. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. THE CLEAT SAKE-LUTED BAT. The Egvpti; PJa aopoi jiruba ily ilistrilmt head aiin xUe poitiuu ot the Afiic^n continent, is a small Bat, the lengtli of tl body being only about two inches and a quartc; The portion of the tiiil free from the membrane is &huv.\ the same length as the heatl and body, and the inter femoral membrane encloses about anot!:er half-inc'.i. It has a nearly naked face, along the middle of which a naiTOw groove runs back from the base of the little nose- leaf to the deep concavity situated in the forehead between the
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. THE CLEAT SAKE-LUTED BAT. The Egvpti; PJa aopoi jiruba ily ilistrilmt head aiin xUe poitiuu ot the Afiic^n continent, is a small Bat, the lengtli of tl body being only about two inches and a quartc; The portion of the tiiil free from the membrane is &huv.\ the same length as the heatl and body, and the inter femoral membrane encloses about anot!:er half-inc'.i. It has a nearly naked face, along the middle of which a naiTOw groove runs back from the base of the little nose- leaf to the deep concavity situated in the forehead between the eyes ; the wing-membranes are attached to the tibia for about two-thirds of the length of the latter, and are entirely free from haii-; and the small develop- ment of the membranes, coupled with the comparatively gi-eat length of the limb-bones, rendei-s this Bat more active in walking than most of his fellows. The fur is short, and leaves a good deal of the hinder part of the back naked; ajid the bare skin thus exposed, as well as the base of the wings, is curiously wrinkled, a character which this species has in common with certain species of Taphozoi and Mvlossi. egaftia The Egyptian Rhinopome is found commonly in Egypt, where it frequents the mimerous i-uins and old buiklings with which th; is particularly abimdan', in the dark galleries and chambers of the Pyramids.*. countrv abounds, and THE GKEAT EAEE-LirPED In Seba'j well-known illustrated book on Natural History a peculiar species of Bat is described and figured under the name of " Vespert'dio cato similis ; It may be doubtful whether iiny of our domestic Grimalkins would be much flattered by the likeness thus briefly indicated (see figure), but there can be no doubt that the animal in question was a Bat, and as such it duly appears in the earlier editions of the " Systema Naturre " of Linnieus. By a curious misapplication of the very sound principle of not being guided exclusively
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