. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammals; Animal behavior. LEAF-NOSED OR BLOOD-SUCKIXG BATS—HORSESHOE. 85 ture is, although a Leaf-nosed Bat, by no means a blood-sucker. It zealously hunts nocturnal insects and does not disdain fruit. Waterton says : "In the broad moonlight I could see the Vampire fly to the trees and eat the ripe fruit. On its return from the forest it frequently brought a round fruit the size of a nutmeg into our yard, and when the Sawarri-nut tree bloomed it searched for nuts growing there.
. Brehm's Life of animals : a complete natural history for popular home instruction and for the use of schools. Mammals; Animal behavior. LEAF-NOSED OR BLOOD-SUCKIXG BATS—HORSESHOE. 85 ture is, although a Leaf-nosed Bat, by no means a blood-sucker. It zealously hunts nocturnal insects and does not disdain fruit. Waterton says : "In the broad moonlight I could see the Vampire fly to the trees and eat the ripe fruit. On its return from the forest it frequently brought a round fruit the size of a nutmeg into our yard, and when the Sawarri-nut tree bloomed it searched for nuts growing there. On moonlight nights I often saw Vampires flying around the tops of these trees, and from time to time a bud would fall into the water. This did not happen without cause, for all the buds that I exam- ined were fresh and sound. So I concluded that they had been plucked by the Vampires, either for the young fruit or for insects that were concealed in ; THE HORSESHOE BATS. The representatives of this group in Europe are called Horseshoe Bats. The appendage of the nose covers the whole face from the forehead to the tip of the nose, and is the most remarkable feature in these animals. The wings are broad and relatively short, and the flight in consequence is far from perfect. The fur of nearly all the Horseshoe Bats is light. The Lesser There are four Horseshoe known Euro- Bats. p e a n species in this group, the most common of them being the Lesser Horseshoe Bat I Rliinolopluis kippocrepis). It is one of the smallest of the Bats, for its entire length is only from two to four inches, with an ex- panse of wing of nine inches. The fur is gray- ish-white above and a lit- tle lighter below. This little Bat extends farther north than any of its kin- dred, inhabiting nearly all of middle Europe, and is also frequently seen in the southern portions of that continent. It is found in the mountains, in localities above the forest belt, and is the most gregarious of all Horseshoe
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