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CHEIROPTERA. \ /-> . '11? 



flying singly, never at a distance from 

 We perceive at once, that the ancients had before 

 them all the materials for their filthy monsters, and 

 yet the natives of their present country find them 

 palateable food, taking great care at the same time, 

 when hunting them with net bags suspended from 

 poles, that the falling or taken animal does not get 

 entangled with his unmanageable hind claws, in 

 the bushy matted heads of the hunters, such as 

 those of Papoos and Haraforos usually are ; for, even 

 on the continent of Europe, the peasantry dread 

 the claws of common bats becoming entangled in 

 their hair. 



Of this section there are enumerated twenty-one 

 species, most, if not all, edible, and some reported to 

 have the flesh white, tender, well flavoured, and 

 entirely destitute of the musky smell which pervades 

 that of others. 



In B, the second section of Goblin Bats, or 

 Gholes with tails, we find the 



P. Egyptiacus, or Geoffrey. Egyptian Ghole. 

 Found by Mr. Geoffroy, hanging from the ceiling of 

 one of the chambers of the great pyramid ; but since 

 discovered also in Senegal, and, therefore, resident 

 across the whole breadth of Northern Africa. It is 

 of a dull greyish-brown, with a very short tail. In 

 this section is likewise included the group which 

 Mr. Gray, perhaps prematurely, has separated into 

 a genus, by the name of Epomophorus, on account 

 of a lengthened spot on each side of the neck, at the 

 anterior insertion of the wings, covering with length- 



