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short and rounded, or at least not prolonged at its pyloric (or 
more specially digestive) extremity. 
These bats are subdivided into various families, three of which 
alone immediately concern us. 1. The Vespertilionidce , which 
includes, amongst very many others, all the English bats with- 
out a nose-leaf. 2. The Rhinolophidce , which includes, amongst 
very many others, the English leaf-nosed bats ; and 3. the 
Phyllostomidce , or leaf-nosed bats of America. 
The other group of bats are made up of those, mostly of large 
British Bats. 
