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THE MAMMALS OE EGYPT. 
from the ground, and alighting sometimes in the bushes and sometimes again in the 
grass. In view of this habit, Dobson suggested that Megaderma frons probably hunts 
for grasshoppers and small mammals, like M. lyra, which, Blyth pointed out, lives on 
similar food and even preys on its own kind. 
Megaderma cor, which has the anterior nose-leaf somewhat elongatedly cordate and 
the posterior erect portion roundly ovate, is present in Abyssinia, in which region 
Megaderma frons also occurs. 
