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PACE 



CHAPTER XL BATS, concluded. 



THE FREE-TAILED INSECTIVOROUS BATS. Smooth-Nosed Free-Tailed Bats (Emballonti- 

 ridce} Sheath-Tailed Bats (Emballonura) Pouch- Winged Bats (Saccopteryx) 

 Tomb-Bats (Taphozous) White Bats (Diclidurus} Hare-Lipped Bats (Noctilio} 



Long-Tailed Bat (Rhinopoma) Mastiff-Bats (Molossus) Naked Bat (Chiro- 

 meles) Wrinkled-Lipped Bats (Nyctinornus) New Zealand Bat (Mystacops) 

 Vampire Bats (PJivllostomatidee) Chin-Leafed Bats ( Chilonycteris and Mormops) 



Harmless Vampires (Vampirus) Javelin Bats (Phyllostomd) Long-Tongued 

 Vampires (Glossophaga) Short-Nosed Vampires (Artibeus) Blood-Sucking Vam- 

 pires (Desmodus and Diphylla) Fossil Bats, 291 



CHAPTER XII. THE INSECTIVORES, Order Insectivora. 



Characteristics of the Group Cobegos, or Kaguans (Galeopithecidce) Philippine Cobego 



Tree-Shrews, or Tupaias ( Tupaiida:} Pen-Tailed Tree-Shrew (Ptilocercus) Fos- 

 sil Tree-Shrews Jumping Shrews (Macroscelididce) Typical Forms (Macrosceles) 



Rock-Jumping Shrew Long-Nosed Jumping Shrew (Rhynchocyon) Its Habits 

 Hedgehogs and Gymnuras (Erinaceida:) Hedgehogs (Erinaceus) African Spe- 

 cies Extinct Representatives Gymnuras (Gymnura) Extinct Forms Shrews 

 (Soricidee) Typical Shrews (Sorex) Common Shrew Lesser Shrew Alpine 

 Shrew North American Shrews Short-Tailed, or Earless Shrews (Blarina] 

 Water-Shrew (Crossopus) Musk-Shrews (Crocidura) Burrowing Shrews (Anuro- 

 sorex) Swimming Shrews ( Chimarrogale) Web-Footed Shrew (JVectogale) Des- 

 mans and Moles (Talpidtz) Desmans (Myogale) Russian Desman Pyrenean 

 Desman Mole-Shrews (Urotrichus) Web-Footed Moles (Scalops) Hairy -Tailed 

 Moles (Scapanus) Star-Nosed Mole (Condylura} The True Moles (Taipei) 

 Extinct Species Yellow-Tailed Mole The Tenrecs (Centetidce) Structural Fea- 

 tures Common Tenrec (Centetes) Streaked Tenrec (Hemicentetes) Hedgehog 

 Tenrecs (Ericulus) Long-Tailed Tenrecs (Microgale) Rice-Tenrecs (Oryzorictes) 



Solenodons (Solenodontidce) Haytian Solenodon Cuban Solenodon The Po- 

 tamogale (Potamog-alidce) The Geogale The Golden Moles (Chrysochloridce), . 310 



CHAPTER XIII. THE CARNIVORES, Order Carnivora. 



THE CAT TRIBE (Felidce). General Characteristics Distinctive Features of the Cat 

 Tribe The Lion Present and Past Distribution Varieties Habits Its Roar 



Its Prey Perils of Lion-Hunting The Tiger Habits and Haunts Partiality 

 for Water Its Prey Loss Inflicted on Cattle Owners Man-Eating Tigers 

 Their Victims Mode of Destroying Tigers The Leopard Its Coloration and 

 Characteristics Black and White Leopards Distribution Mode of Life and 

 Haunts Partiality for Dogs Leopard-Hunting and Trapping Snow-Leopard, or 

 Ounce Distribution and Habits Jaguar Distinctive Features and Dimensions 

 Its Prey Animosity to the Puma Lassoing Jaguars Puma Its Color and Size 



Adaptability to Climates Attacks on Horses Gentleness to Man Food and 

 Habits Fossil Pumas Clouded Leopard Marbled Cat Golden Cat Fish- 



* ing Cat Its Habits and Daring Leopard-Cat Serval Rusty-Spotted Cat 

 Flat-Headed Cat Ocelot Its Remarkable Variability Margay Jaguarondi 

 Eyra Its Weasel-like Form Colocollo Caff re, or Egyptian Cat Its Relation 

 to Domestic Cats Wild Cat Its Present Rarity in Britain Fierceness of Its Dis- 

 position Pallas's Cat Indian Desert Cat Domestic Cats Different Views as to 

 their Origin Various Colors Persian, or Angora Breed Siamese Cat Manx 

 Cat Mobas Cat Pampas Cat Jungle-Cat Caracal Lynx Distribution and 

 Races of Lynxes Northern Lynx Canada Lynx Bay Lynx Pardine Lynx 



