CHIROPTERA. 



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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 



Fig. 320. — Skeleton of fox-bat — Pteropus, 



CL, Clavicle; H. t humerus; ./?., radius; U., incomplete ulna; 

 Th. t thumb; Ca., carpals ; M., metacarpals 3 and 4; Ph., 

 phalanges; P., femur; T., tibia; P., fibula; Ta. t tarsals; 

 int., metatarsals. 



when deprived of sight, hearing, and smell, bats will fly about 

 in a room without striking 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 

 one offspring at a time, and there are never more than two. 



