324 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
THE COLLARED FRUIT BAT. 
Cynonycteris collaris, female, showing mode of carrying young. 
at the numbers. They covered the sky like a cloud, and kept 
steadily passing over for many minutes. Though keen-sighted, 
Bats cenerally have rather a sharp rat-like eye than an occular 
apparatus indicating a large field of vision. The dark colour 
of the eyeball, as a rule, prevents the contraction (often to a 
pin’s point) and expansion of the iris and pupil being readily 
noticeable; though there is considerable power in this respect. 
But if the eye of a large Bat—such as that depicted in the 
