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BATS 



long heads, with a bluntly conical or truncated muzzle, the very large, flabby, and 

 expansible lips bordering the capacious mouth, and also by the presence of a tuft 

 of white hair on the margins of the ears. Some of these bats are tailless, while 

 others have a short tail unconnected with the membrane between the legs. In 

 all the species but one, the males, which are larger than the females, are fur- 

 nished with peculiar pouches of skin on the sides of the neck, from the interior 



COLLARED FOX-BAT AND YOUNG. 

 (After Sclater, From the Proc. Zool. Soc.) 



of which project tufts of long yellowish hair, surmounting the shoulders, so as to 

 resemble epaulettes, and thus giving origin to the popular and scientific names of 

 the group. 



These bats are confined to that portion of Africa lying to the south of the 

 Sahara desert, which constitutes the greater portion of the Ethiopian region of 

 zoologists, and are unknown in Madagascar. They are most abundant in the forest 



