. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. ;;76 _ NATUBAl BISTORT. alone for the sake of the jJeasure of ; It is hardly fair, perhaps, to apply the character of this [lisgnsting little gorniandiser to his whole species, but no doubt if the rest of his kind only approxi- mate to his j)rowess, they must do incalculable miscldef in the plantations of fruit-trees. According to Captain Hutton, these Bats travel long distances, as much as thirty or forty miles in search of food, and back again the same night. This is most strikiui;ly shown in tli'ir fi(i|U(iiting the valleys
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. ;;76 _ NATUBAl BISTORT. alone for the sake of the jJeasure of ; It is hardly fair, perhaps, to apply the character of this [lisgnsting little gorniandiser to his whole species, but no doubt if the rest of his kind only approxi- mate to his j)rowess, they must do incalculable miscldef in the plantations of fruit-trees. According to Captain Hutton, these Bats travel long distances, as much as thirty or forty miles in search of food, and back again the same night. This is most strikiui;ly shown in tli'ir fi(i|U(iiting the valleys of the Dehra Doon and Nepaiil to feed on the giiavas growini; tlure, as tiny aii' iii\ ei seen in these localities during the day, but arrive there during the fruit season about midnight, and ilepart again before morning. "To reach Dehra," says Captain Hutton, " they must either cross the iSivalik i-ange of hills, from 3,000 to 3,500 feet high, or thread their way for miles through the passes leading into the Doon, though even then we may ask with amazement how, when they are approaching the Sivaliks, they can tell that there is fruit some twenty miles in advance of them ! To reach the valley of Nepaul at 6,000 feet of elevation they must ascend and descend the mountains ; and yet, wonderful to say, they penetrate no farther into the hills, neither do they descend from the Doon to Mussooree, appa- rently instinctively knowing that they will find no guavas farther in the hills ! Almost equally is it that, ha\Tiig thus feasted in the Doon and Nepaul, they should be able to find their way back i^5J'ljl\\N.^ V\"^ again, through forests and hills, for thirty or forty miles to theii- natural haunts in the ; Caj)tain Hutton fully confirms Mr. HEAD OF THE MABoiNEn FRi'iT BAT. Dobsou's Statements as to the gi-eediness of this Bat. He says that one he had " in Calcutta in 1849 aj)peared to be almost incessantly eating, resting onlv, even
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