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MAMMALIA. 



volutions, and leave the cerebellum uncovered. The spinal 

 cord is at first very broad, but narrows rapidly behind the 

 neck. The sense of touch is remarkably developed in the 

 hot skin of the wing, the large mobile external ears, the 

 whisker hairs of the snout, and in the strange plaited " nose 



FIG. 374.- Skeleton of fox-bat. Pt crop us. 



CL, Clavicle; H., humerus ; R ., radius; U., incomplete ulna; 

 Th., thumb; Ca. , carpals ; M., metacarpals 3 and 4; Ph., 

 phalanges; F., femur; T., tibia ; F ., fibula; Ta., tarsals ; 

 int., metatarsals. 



leaves " around the nostrils. Even when deprived of sight, 

 hearing, and smell, bats will fly about in a room without 

 striking numerous wires stretched across it. The stomach 

 is usually simple, but there is a long pyloric diverticulum, 

 filled with coagulated blood, in the blood-sucking Desmodus. 



