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HARPYIA. ORDER INSECTIVORA. 



gular looking Bat, having nostrils projecting in a kind of cylin- 

 der, and a claw on the fore-finger. The flesh of many of the 



Fm. 96. HARPYJA PALLASII. 



frugivorous Bats is eaten as a dainty by the inhabitants of the 

 countries in which they are found ; having a flavour which has 

 been compared to that of the hare and partridge. It is possible 

 that some of larger species, which may have been known to the 

 ancients, gave rise to the fabulous account of the Harpy. 



ORDER IV. INSECTIVORA. 



174. Although, as we have already seen, a large proportion 



of the Bat tribe, as well as many 

 of the lower Quadrumana, are 

 adapted to derive their chief sup- 

 port from Insects, and have their 

 teeth and their general conforma- 

 tion arranged accordingly, yet it 

 is in this order that we find 

 FIG. 97. TBETH OF INSECTIVOROUS these characters developed to 

 their fullest extent. Though 

 the animals which it contains differ very greatly in other respects, 



