The Bookshelf for boys and girls: Nature and Outdoor Life (1912)
University Society, New York · New York. : University Society · leaf 16
themost suited to their great need—the capture offood. And a little observation will show thatthis is so, since at this time many kinds of in-sects are on the wing—insects which, from thenature of their flight, are more easily capturedthan those that disport themselves during theheat of the day.… … VAMPIRE BAT FAMILY. I. VAMPIRE. 2. HEAD OF VAMPIRE. 3. HEAD OF DWARF BAT. 4, HEAD OF HORSESHOE-NOSED BAT. 214 ANIMAL WAYS AND WHYS ously short-sighted, as is shown by the saying,Blind as a bat. Except the mole, no other ofour animals is so degenerate in the matter of itseyes. Two little black,…
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