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weak from loss of blood, and next morning (the Megaderm having 
been caught), on both bats being put into the same cage, the little 
one was again attacked and devoured ; it was seized both times behind 
the ear. McMaster writes that in Rangoon he had a tame canary 
killed by a bat, and the bird’s mate soon afterwards was destroyed in 
the same way. The case was clearly proved. 
Mr. Frith informed Mr. Blyth that these bats were in the habit of 
resorting to the verandah of his house at Mymensing, and that every 
morning the ground under them was strewed with the hind quarters of 
frogs, and the wings of large grasshoppers and crickets. On one 
occasion the remains of a small fish were observed ; but frogs appeared 
to be their chief diet—never toads ; and of a quiet evening these animals 
could be distinctly heard crunching the heads and smaller bones of their 
victims. 
No. 37. MEGADERMA SPECTRUM. 
The Cashmere Vampire (Jerdon’s No 16). 
Hapirat.—Cashmere. 
DEscrIPTION.—Above slaty cinereous, whitish beneath ; the vertical 
nose-leaf of moderate size, oval; inner lobe of tragus ovate (/erdoz). 
S1zE.—Two and three-quarter inches. 
Dobson makes this bat synonymous with the last. 
No. 38. MEGADERMA SPASMA. 
Hapitat.—Tenasserim, Ceylon. 
DEscRIPTION. — Muzzle,  ear- 
conch, and tragus similar to those 
of M. Zyra,; the posterior portion 
of the tragus, however, is’ longer 
and more attenuated upwards, and 
more acutely pointed; the nose-leaf 
is shorter, with convex sides ; but 
the anterior concave disc.is con- 
siderably larger, and the base of 
the thickened process is cordate ; 
thumbs and wings as in AZ. Yra; 
interfemoral membrane deeper ; 
the calcaneum stronger; colour the 
same. 
S1zE,—Headvand body, about 
3 inches. This bat is alluded to Ape 
by Jerdon as Mf. Aorsfieldii. ET ae 
