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Jerdon is my authority for saying of flying foxes: 
“The flesh is esteemed good eating by some. Colonel 
Sykes calls it delicate, and with no bad flavour, and 
states that it is eaten by the native Portuguese. Many 
classes in the Madras Presidency also eat it.” Arise, 
then, ye epicures who love to tickle your palates with 
the savoury flesh of these winged mammals, arise and 
make hay while the sun shines, for in Madras, near the 
Club, lives a whole farmyard of fine, well-fed flying 
foxes, only waiting to be eaten! 
