. An introduction to the study of mammals living and extinct. Mammals. EMBALLOXURID.^ 669 able for feeding on fish—a circnmstance whicli lias only recently been fully authenticated. The remaining genus of this subfamily is regarded as repre- senting another division, Trhich may be known as the Ehinoporno- tine division. Bhinopoma.}—This genus, represented by the single species E. micnypki/Uum, might also be elevated to the rank of a family, for it is difficult to determine its exact affinities, a kind of cross relationship attaching it to the XyderidcE on the one hand and to this family, in vr
. An introduction to the study of mammals living and extinct. Mammals. EMBALLOXURID.^ 669 able for feeding on fish—a circnmstance whicli lias only recently been fully authenticated. The remaining genus of this subfamily is regarded as repre- senting another division, Trhich may be known as the Ehinoporno- tine division. Bhinopoma.}—This genus, represented by the single species E. micnypki/Uum, might also be elevated to the rank of a family, for it is difficult to determine its exact affinities, a kind of cross relationship attaching it to the XyderidcE on the one hand and to this family, in vrhich it is here placed provisionally, on the other. This species, distinguished from aU other Microchiroptera as well by the presence of two phalanges in Fic. 314.—skui! of isimcivwia micro- the index finger as by its remarkably 1**''™- ^^- (Dobson, j/woyi-. jfw-. long and slender tail projecting far ^'^''''" beyond the narrow interfemoral membrane, inhabits the subterranean tombs in Egypt and deserted bmldin^ generally from Xorth-East Africa to Emma. Subfamily Holossinse.—Tail thick, produced far beyond the posterior margin of the interfemoral membrane (except in Jli/sta- C'-'ps); legs short and strong, with weU-developed fibula; upper incisors strong. This subfamily includes all the species of Emhal- lonuiidix with short and strong legs and broad feet (whereof the first toe, and in most species the fifth also, is much thicker than the others, and furnished with long curved hairs), well-developed callosities at the base of the thumbs, and a single pair of large upper incisors occupying the centre of the space between the canines. In aU the species the feet are free from the wing- membrane, which folds up perfectly tmder the forearm and legsj the interfemoral membrane is retractile, being movable backwarcls and forwards along the taU, and this power of varving its superficial extent must confer upon these Bats great dexterity in quickly changing the direction of
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