CHIROPTERA 



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TABLE SHOWING RELATION OF GENERAL DIMENSIONS TO LENGTH 



OF FOREARM:— 



The few figures available for M. bechsteini indicate an 

 exceptional bat ; short-tailed, but with long lower leg and broad 

 short wing. 



The RhinolophidcB are markedly different, being characterised 

 by an exceptionally short tail and third metacarpal. The fifth 

 metacarpal is also short, but longer than the third. The 

 expanse is poor, the wing short and broad with poorly 

 developed interfemoral, but large antebrachial, membrane. 

 The lower leg is well developed, the foot moderately so, the 

 longest digit below the average. 



Although naturally most at home on the wing, all the 



