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FIRS'/ LFSSONS IN ZOOLOGY 



nocturnal, lianLjini,;- licrul downward by their hind claws 

 in caves, hollow trees, or dark rooms through the day. 

 They feed chiell)' on insects, although some foreign kinds 

 live on fruits. There are a dozen or more species of bats 

 in North America, the most abundant kinds in the East- 



Fir;. :?rir|. — Tlie hnary }i,A. Liisinriis cinerc-iis. (Ph<.)tugraph from life by 

 J. (J. Si.y.ler ) 



ern States being tlie little brown bat (Myntis siihulatiis), 

 about three inches long, with small fo.\-like fice, high 

 slender ears, and a uniform dull olix'e-brown color, and 

 the red liat {Lasniiiis borcalis), nearl)' four inches long, 

 coveied with long, silky, reddisli-ljrown fur, mostly white 

 at tips of the hairs. 



The dolphins, porpoises, and whales (Cete). — The 

 dolphins, porpoises, and wh.ales (Letej Compose an order 



