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sensitive, leaf-like growths of complicated form. Certain 

 bats are known to enter houses, and suck the blood from 



Fig. 512.— Skull of adult speiiu whale s -un from above and from tho side. So, 

 haBiocclpital bone ; eo, exoccipital ; 50, supraoccipital ; p, parietal ; s, squamosal ; /, 

 frontal ; pi, palatine ; j, jugal ; sA, styloliyoid ; b/i, basihyoid ; th, thyronyoid.— After 

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the extremities of sleeping persons, who awaken to find their 

 feet covered with blood. The true vampire is harmless. 



