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BATS. 



THE HORSESHOE AND LEAF-NOSED BATS 

 Family RHINOLOPHID^E 



The bat represented in the accompanying illustration is one of the two British 

 representatives of a well-marked and rather numerous family distributed over the 

 greater part of the Old World. This family is technically known as the Rhino- 

 lophidce, and includes the horseshoe-bats {Rhinolophus} and the leaf-nosed bats 

 (Hippo siderus), together with some less important genera. All of them are charac- 



THE GREATER HORSESHOE-BAT. 

 (Four-fifths natural size.) 



terized by having a well-developed nose-leaf completely surrounding the nostrils, 

 which are situated in a depression of the snout. And they are also distinguished by 

 their large ears, which have no trace of an inner ear, or tragus, and are in most 

 cases completely separate from one another at their origin at the head. 



The horseshoe-bats (Rhinolophus) , of which our figure is an example, always 

 have 32 teeth, of which the incisors number ^, and the cheek-teeth on either 

 side ; and they are further distinguished by the shape of the nose-leaf, which con- 



