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date we found the pink, almost hairless little ones of different sizes 

 hanging to the roof and scattered over much of its surface. On our 

 last visit, late in June, the cave was so hot as to be unbearable. 

 This bat was not seen at Pinar del Kio, but from pellets of the Cuban 

 barn owl we procured several skulls. 



Among the specimens captured at the mouth of the damp cave near 

 Baracoa (described under Chilonyeteris madeayli) were many of this 

 species. It was among the last to leave the cave, and we were quite 

 unalde to see them as they emerged, depending on chance and rapid 

 movements of the net to secure them. On one side of the vertical 

 opening of this cave grew a large tree whose roots descended like a 

 stream into the cavit3^ The people of the neighborhood assured me 

 that the majas (the Cuban boa, Epi crates angnlifer) coil themselves 

 among these roots and grab at the bats as the^^ fly out. 1 was told 

 that a snake frequently secures a bat in this manner. — W. Palmer. 



Measurements of Monophijllus and Phyllonycteris. 



