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MAMMALIA, 
The Yampires have been divided into a certain number of 
genera, which we will not delay to examine, inasmuch as they 
only differ from each other in a very trilling manner. 
The principal are — the Yampires, properly called the Phyllos- 
tomes ; the Glossophages, the Stenodermes, and the Desmodes. 
To the first section belongs the Spectre Yampire (Fig. 232), the 
king of Yampires, so far as size is concerned. A mature specimen I 
is never less than twenty-six inches across the wings, and sometimes 
Fig. 232.— Spectre Vampire ( Vampirus spectrum). 
attains twenty-seven and a half inches. To the second section 
belongs the Javelin Phvllostoma (Fig. 233), described by Buffon, 
and which is a smaller species, measuring from twelve to fourteen 
inches across the wings. 
The Glossophages are recognisable by their long, thin, and 
extensible tongue, furnished with hair on its surface, which they 
protrude and retract with extreme rapidity ; from whence their 
name, which signifies “ eat-tongue.” 
