CLASS I. MAMMALIA: ORDER 3. CHEIROPTERA. 127 
HORSE-SHOE BATS IN THE HOLLOW OF A TREK. 
reduce their numbers, they would be utterly unbearable. Those species, too, which frequent the 
towns and settlements are useful in other respects. Most of the race are miscellaneous in their 
feeding, and not very delicate in their taste. They devour indiscriminately all animal substan ces, 
whether raw or dressed, and whether in a fresh or putrid state, thus removing a great deal of 
noxious and dangerous matter. 
K-ALONG, OR KOOSSETTE BAT. — (See p. 129.) 
So far, our account having reference to the bats with which we are acquainted in temperate 
climates, we have spolcen of them as a gentle and useful race; but truth compels us to declare 
that there are, in far-off tropical countries, larger and more formidable creatures of this family. 
