. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Mammals; Natural history; Mammifères; Sciences naturelles. 31" darkness seems leii sliut up in a )rs, tlie bats still 'ct precision. In of a more than known structure, experiment, that thout its eyes as lal's stracture, or to naturalists, which have been wed, that to the entioned faculty. â quadrupeds and the air as leral among the nimal is hurried ider compulsion, le aiul awkward s achieved Avith ndcmned for the ivvl to which its lay be strangely on the ground oks the claw at '. By means of body partly off tumble fcnvard. e pro
. The illustrated natural history [microform]. Mammals; Natural history; Mammifères; Sciences naturelles. 31" darkness seems leii sliut up in a )rs, tlie bats still 'ct precision. In of a more than known structure, experiment, that thout its eyes as lal's stracture, or to naturalists, which have been wed, that to the entioned faculty. â quadrupeds and the air as leral among the nimal is hurried ider compulsion, le aiul awkward s achieved Avith ndcmned for the ivvl to which its lay be strangely on the ground oks the claw at '. By means of body partly off tumble fcnvard. e proceeds in a in Avere reelijig to one side and Y level surface, in whence they rj) and curved '. perpendicular ng their bodies ves up by the eight they are t. They have themselves fall igular attitude liey are in the ⢠need only to air. 1 attitude, but â¢n among the lus Coiius, an -, and hanginii '1' the purpose her feutluTcd THE HOKSESHOE HEAD OF HORSKsnOE BAT. lih iiii'ilojjh Fi:rntiii,!iiu Iniiiii, X:n;j:^ tlhlT'ul: ""^" ^^'^^' ^â¢^ ^^^'^â¢^ ^^ ^''^ '--^^^ P«-tion of the bats On the nuse of the Vampire Bat may be observed a curious membrane of . iii Snts wEh m;?;-?"' ""' P-i>-sessing appendage to the iX,^ h> !S n o? tlK! Miacli inhabit our own country. Anion"- the British lnt« ^vl,i-.), , "'-^oim ot . .corated m,se, the Okkat Hoksksh,/JUt is l^o nu^lt sp^uc^^'^;iX Lea^f this animal is given in the engraving, as in its winus ^ ^ "''' ^"""'^ "' and body it differs but very little from other British bats. The membrane which gives to this creature the title (jt Horseshoe Bat, is extremely large in to the size of the animal, though not so large as in some of the h)reigii bats. It is double in lorni, that portion winch is in front resembling a horseshoe in shape, and curving Ironi the lips upwards, so as to embrace the nostrils The second leafy membrane
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