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ture and mastication of coleopterous insects, and he
flies high and straight, with a’dash at every luckless
cockchafer that may come sailing near him.

Another important family of bats is the Em-
ballonuride, of which there is only one European spe-
cies) Among the more remarkable members of this
group are the white bats, belonging to the genus Dz-

 

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clidurus, found in Central and South America; the
naked bat of Malaysia, which has a pouch for holding
the young while they are suckling ; the New Zealand
bat, which not only catches insects as it flies, but as it
creeps among the trees; and the vampires of South
America, of which the only blood-suckers are Desmo-
dus rufus and Diphylla ecaudata, In the Kensington