INSECT-EATERS. 
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1 "ampyrus auritus ( 397 ), and the eTav elin Yampire ( 398 )^ 
both well-known South American species. Many o£ these 
American Bats were formerly supposed to be guilty of blood- 
sucking ; but one of the three real Blood-sucking Bats is 
Desmodus riifus ( 400 ), of which a specimen was caught by 
Fig-. 15. 
A B 
Skulls of (A) the Noctule and (B) a Blood-sucking Bat. 
Mr. Darwin in the act of sucking blood from a horse. These 
Bats attack men as well as animals in their sleep, fanning the 
victims with their wings. The wounds they inflict are small, 
but often continue to bleed after the Bats are satisfied, and do 
not readily heal. 
Order III. INSECTTYOKA. 
(Upper Gallery, Oase 13.) 
The small order of Insectivora, or Insect-eating Mammals, 
is a group of which the English Hedgehog, Shrew, and Mole 
are familiar examples. The members of this group are small 
Mammals, of dull and inconspicuous coloration, gaining their 
living either by burrowing in the ground for worms and grubs, 
by hunting for beetles and other insects in grass and under- 
wood, or, more rarely, by climbing among trees after their 
prey. By far the greater portion are purely animal-feeders. 
Their voracity is extraordinary, instances being recorded, both 
of Moles and Shrews, in which, when two individuals kept 
