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CHAPTER XL BATS, concluded. 



THE FREE-TAILED INSECTIVOROUS BATS Smooth-Nosed Free-Tailed Bats (Emballonuridce) 

 Sheath-Tailed Bats (Emballonurd) Pouch-Winged Bats (Saccopteryx) Tomb-Bats 

 (Taphozous) White Bats (Diclidurus) Hare-Lipped Bats (Nodilio) Long-Tailed Bat 

 (Rhinoponia) Mastiff- Bats (Molossus) Naked Bat (Chiromeles) Wrinkled-Lipped Bats 

 (Nyctinomus) New Zealand Bat (Mystacops) Vampire Bats (Phyllostomatidce) Chin- 

 Leafed Bats (Chilonyderis and Mormops) Harmless Vampires (Vampirus) Javelin 

 Bats (Phyllostoma) Long-Tongued Vampires (Glossophaga) Short-Nosed Vampires 

 (Artibeus) Blood-Sucking Vampires (Desmodus and Diphylla) Fossil Bats, . . 289 



CHAPTER XII. THE INSECTIVORES, Order Insectivora. 



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

 Tree-Shrews, or Tupaias (Tupaiidce) Pen-Tailed Tree-Shrew (Ptilocercus) Fossil Tree- 

 Shrews Jumping Shrews (Macroscelididce) Typical Forms (Macrosceles) Rock 

 Jumping Shrew Long-Nosed Jumping Shrew (Rhynchocyori) Its Habits Hedgehogs 

 and Gymnuras (Erinaceidce) Hedgehogs (Erinaceus) African Species Extinct Repre- 

 sentatives Gymnuras (Gymnura) Extinct Forms Shrews (Soricidce) 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 (Anurosorex) Swimming Shrews (Chimarrogale) Web- 

 Footed Shrew (Nedogale) Desmans and Moles (Talpidce) Desmans (Myogale) 

 Russian Desman Pyreneaii Desman Mole-Shrews (Urotrichus) Web-Footed Moles 

 (Scalops) Hairy-Tailed Moles (Scapanus) Star-Nosed Mole (Condylura) The True 

 Moles (Talpa) Extinct Species Yellow-tailed Mole The Tenrecs (Centetidce) Struc- 

 tural Features Common Tenrec (Centetes) Streaked Tenrec (Hemicentetes) Hedgehog 

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

 Solenodons (Solenodontidce) Haytian Solenodon Cuban Solenodon The Potamogale 

 (Potamogalidce)The Geogale The Golden Moles (Chrysochloridce), . . .307 



CHAPTER XIIL THE CARNIVORES, Order Carnivwa. 



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 Modes 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 Colour and Size Adaptability to Climates Attacks on Horses- 

 Gentleness to Man Food and Habits Fossil Pumas Clouded Leopard Marbled Cat 

 Golden Cat Fishing 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 Caffre, or Egyptian Cat Its 

 Relation to Domestic Cats Wild Cat Its Present Rarity in Britain Fierceness of its 

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

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

 Mombas Cat Pampas Cat Jungle-Cat Caracal Lynx Distribution and Races 

 of Lynxes Northern Lynx Canada Lynx Bay Lynx Pardine Lynx Hunting- 

 Leopard (Cyncelurus) Name Chita not exclusively applicable to this Species Capturing 

 Black-Buck with Tamed Hunting-LeopardsExtinct Cats, .... 349 



