. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. NATURAL »U iEMVLE LONG-^HMED 1! \T (Jftc extend dowii to within about a quarter of an inch of the ankles, and the heel-spnrs are about as long as the tibia. The body is covered with short dark-brown fur, which extends over the bases of the wings, and down the interfemoral membrane as far as the point where the tail emerges from it. This is the species originally discovered by Geoffroy in the chambers of the Pyramids, and other tombs and buildings in Egypt. It is Do!.i,oii, said also to inliabit Sennaar and Senegal. It flies in t
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. NATURAL »U iEMVLE LONG-^HMED 1! \T (Jftc extend dowii to within about a quarter of an inch of the ankles, and the heel-spnrs are about as long as the tibia. The body is covered with short dark-brown fur, which extends over the bases of the wings, and down the interfemoral membrane as far as the point where the tail emerges from it. This is the species originally discovered by Geoffroy in the chambers of the Pyramids, and other tombs and buildings in Egypt. It is Do!.i,oii, said also to inliabit Sennaar and Senegal. It flies in the evening, passes the day in the darkest it can find, and feeds exclusively upon insects. These liabits, indeed, appear to be common to all the species of the genus.''' THE EGYPTIAN This Bat, descrilied by the French traveller and naturalist Belon, about the middle of the sixteenth â century, under the name of the Egyptian Bat (Cluiuve-Souris d'Egypte), is one of the most singidar members of the order Chiroptera. It presents so curious a combination of characters that its place in the system has always been uncertain ; and owing to the presence of a small nose-leaf, it has hitherto been arranged by different wi-iters with the Phyllo- stomata, the Rhuiolophidie, and the Nycterida>. Its true place, according- to Mr. Dobsou's recent re- searches, appears to be with the Emhcdlonuridct, with whicii, and especially with the Taphozoi, it certainly agrees closely in the form of the skull and the dentition. This view of the relationships of the genus Rhinopoma seems also to have struck Cuvier, who, while placing the genus next to Nycteris, makes Taphozous immediately follow it. The genus is characterised by having the crown of the head considerably elevated, with a deep concavity in the forehead between the eyes, as in Taphozov^; the muzzle considerably elongated beyond the opening of the mouth ; the nostrils of valvidar structure, situated in the anterior mar
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