458 Field Museum of Natural History — Zoology, Vol. XL 



would lick his foot or a portion of his wing and rub his head with it 

 the wrong way of the fur, and scratch himself rapidly behind the ear 

 with one of his little thumb nails at the bend of his wing, the long 

 bone of his fore-arm beating a tattoo on the glass beside him as he 

 did so. The elasticity of the wing membrane is truly astonishing; 

 he would seize an edge of it in his mouth and stretch it into all kinds of 

 grotesque shapes in his endeavor to get it clean enough to suit his fancy, 

 and sometimes, when at work on the inside, he would wrap his head 

 up in it entirely, the thin rubbery stuff conforming to the general 

 outline of his skull in the most startling manner."* 



On alighting a Bat attaches itself to the object by its wing hooks 

 {pollex) and hind feet, with its head up. If it intends to rest for any 



Map showing range of the Little Brown Bat, (Myotis lucifugus)in eastern United States and southern 

 Canada; its northern range extends to Labrador, the Hudson Bay region and Alaska. 



* American Animals, 1902, pp. 107-199. 



