UPPER MAMMAL GALLERY. 
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the Pacific, where they are the only indigenous Mammals. With 
few exceptions, they are of dull coloration. Though in other 
respects much alike, they present striking modifications in 
their facial characters, many of them developing on their 
muzzles structures known as nose-leaves, which seem to be 
organs of touch of extreme delicacy, and are of wonderful 
variability both in shape and size (see fig. 14). Another 
Fig. 14. 
Head of the Indian TIorsesboe-Bat {Rhinolophus mitratus). 
feature of Bats, especially those in which the nose-leaf is 
small or absent, is the presence of a kind of an additional ear, 
or “ tragus/^ within the main ear. 
Of the Insectivorous Bats exhibited, the following may be 
noticed : — The False Vampires, Megaderma ( 343 ) of Africa, 
Asia, and Australia, which correspond among Bats to the 
(/arnivora among Mammals generally, preying habitually on 
the smaller species of Chiroptera ; the Horseshoe-Bats of 
Europe, llldnoloplms ferriim-equimnn ( 320 ) and H. liipposiderus 
( 324 ) ; the Long-eared Bat, Flecotus aiiritas ( 341 ), in which 
the ear is nearly as long as the body ; the Noctule, Pipnstrelhis 
[Pterggistes) noctula ( 361 ), the largest of the English Bats ; 
the peculiar Naked Bat, Chiromeles torquata ( 380 ), of the 
]\lalay countries ; the White Bat, Piclidnrvs alhus ( 381 ), of 
South America ; and the Painted Bat, Kerivonla picta ( 369 ), 
of India, in which the orange-and-black wings resemble the 
fruit and decaying leaves of the bananas among which it lives. 
Among the Vampires may be mentioned the Lesser Vampire, 
