40 THE FOOD OF ANIMALS 



of being a broad pouch it is a long narrow tube. An arrange- 

 ment quite comparable to this is found in other animals which 

 have adopted the same kind of diet. Bates and Wallace both 

 accredit the Javelin Bats of South America with the blood-sucking 

 habit. One species of these {Phyllostoma spectrum) is represented 

 in fig. 332. 



