SLIT-FACED BAT 

 Petalia thebaioa, Geoff. 



Somali name, Fidmer 



Description. — General colour above, smoky-grey, lighter 

 below. Ears large and bluntly pointed, practically hairless, with 

 a fringe of pale hairs along inner margin, becoming shorter in 

 length or disappearing as the tip is reached. 



Measurements of female specimen caught at Upper Sheikh : 



Head and body Tj mm. 



Tail 57 „ 



Hindfoot 90 „ 



Ear 36 „ 



Distribution. — Found all over the interior plateau and on 

 certain parts of Cuban. 



Habits. — They spend the day in caves, old disused wells as 

 found at Ber, and in holes in trees, emerging at dusk. They are 

 gregarious in their habits, sometimes hundreds being congregated 

 together in the same well. 



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