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Fig. 22 — Tube-nosed Fruit Bat 



extends down the back. Tube-nosed fruit bats are found from 

 Celebes and Timor to Queensland and Guadalcanal Island in 

 the Solomons. 



The Harpy Fruit Bat 

 (Harpionycteris) resembles 

 the flying fox externally. It 

 is chocolate-brown and has 

 cusped cheek-teeth. It is small, 

 the forearm about three and 

 one-fourth inches, the head 

 and body about five and one- 

 half inches. It is found only 

 in the Philippines and Celebes. 



Long-tongued Bats (Mac- 

 roglossus and related forms) 

 have a long, highly protrusi- 

 ble tongue and narrow cheek- 

 teeth that hardly show above 

 the gums. They are small, the 

 head and body length four and 



one-half inches or less, the forearm not more than about two 

 and three-fourths inches. Eonycteris, superficially much like 

 RousettuSi has no claw on the index finger. It reaches from 



Fig. 23 — Head of Long-tongued 

 Bat, showing protrusile tongue 



