LITTLE BROWN BAT 



Myotis lucifitgiis. 



This representative of the only order among mammals endowed 

 with the power of true flight is common everywhere in North Amer- 

 ica, east of the Rockies. Weird creatures of the twilight are they, 

 spending the bright hours of sunshine hanging head downward and 

 clinging with sharp curved claws to the roof of some secluded cave, 

 the trunk of a thickly foliaged tree, or the rafters of an old barn 

 or garret. At the approach of darkness they awake and begin their 

 airy flitting to and fro in the quest for all the tiny insectivora upon 

 which they feed. 



So rapid and noiseless is their flight that in the uncertain light 

 and shadow they invariably startle us and give the impression of 

 being uncanny wanderers from some spirit world. Almost as thin 



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