CLASS I. MAMMALIA: ORDER 3. CHEIROPTERA. 



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HORSE-SHOE BATS IN THE HOLLOW OF A TREE. 



reduce their numbers, they would be utterly unbearable. Those species, too, which frequent the 

 towns and settlements are useful in other respects. Most of the "race are miscellaneous in their 

 feeding, and not very delicate in their taste. They devour indiscriminately all animal substan ces, 

 whether raw or dressed, and whether in a fresh or putrid state, thus removing a great deal of 



noxious and dangerous matter. 



KAXON'G, OR ROUSSETTE BAT. — (See p. 129.) 



So far, our account having reference to the bats with which we are acquainted in temperate 

 .climates, we have spoken of them as a gentle and useful race; but truth compels us to declare 

 that there are, in far-off tropical countries, larger and more formidable creatures of this family. 



