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habits. Its technical name, Vampyrus, from this point 
of view, is therefore an absolute misnomer; and though, 
on the same grounds the term would have been fairly 
applicable to the small and true blood-sucking bats, yet 
at the same time, it would have been scarcely appropriate 
for these on the score of their small size and insignificant 
appearance. 
Common on the outskirts of the town among the 
hollow trees which it seems chiefly to frequent, though 
not infrequently it is caught flying about in houses in the 
evening, is the short-tongued red bat, Catollia brevi- 
caudatus. This small bat has a spread of wing of about 
10-12 inches, and is of a bright rufous tint in old ex- 
amples, though the younger ones are more or less reddish 
mouse colour. The muzzle is slightly produced, and fur- 
nished with a medium-sized nose-leaf which is narrow 
and drawn out at the top ; the tongue is short and 
scarcely extensile, and is never provided with papillose 
fibrils, nor is the under lip markedly channelled, though 
it is edged with small wart-like processes. The median 
incisor teeth are enlarged, nearly pointed and more 
or less triangular in outline, their edges being separated ; 
and the lateral incisors are very small. The tail is distinctly 
short, not reaching to the extremity ot the interfemoral 
membrane, but projecting for a short distance above, 
peiforating the membrane at about its middle. 
Easily to be confounded with the foregoing form which 
it closely resembles, is the long-tongued reddish bat, 
Glossophaga soricina, which is also obtainable about the 
coast, but less commonly so than the foregoing, and is more 
usually taken in empty or deserted houses than in trees. 
It is somewhat smaller in size, being about io-i i inches in 
