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MAMMALIA. 



broad, but narrows rapidly behind the neck. The sense of 

 touch is remarkably developed in the hot skin of the wing, 

 the large mobile external ears, the whisker hairs of the 

 snout, and in the strange plaited " nose leaves " around the 

 nostrils. Even when deprived of sight, hearing, and smell, 



Fig. 263. — Skeleton of Fox Bat, — Pteropus. 



tV, Clavicle; H, humerus; /C, mdius ; U, incomplete ulna; Th. 

 thiunb ; C«, carpals ; i\I, metacarpals 3 and 4 ; Fh, phalan-^es " F 

 femur; T, tibia; F, fibula; Ta, tarsals; vii, metatarsals. 



bats will fly about in a room without strikinc; numerous 

 wires stretched across it. 



The temperature of the body is high. The testes are 

 abdominal or inguinal ; the penis is pendent. The uterus 

 is simple, with cornua generally short. There is usually but 



