CHAPTER II.

SUB-ORDER I.--MEGACHIROPTERA, OR LARGE BATS.

PTEROPIDÆ, OR FRUIT-EATING BATS.

Characteristics of Fruit-eating Bats--Distribution--Diet--Flying Fox of Ceylon: its Habits, as described by Sir E. Tennent--The Flight of the _Pteropidæ_--Known to the Ancients--The Fruit Bats in the Zoological Gardens--INDIAN FLYING FOX--Diet--Dissipated Habits--GREAT KALONG--Linnæus’s Description--In their Dormitories--NICOBAR, MANED, JAPANESE, AND GREY FRUIT BATS--GREY-HEADED FRUIT BAT--GOULD’S FRUIT BAT--ROUSSETTE--EGYPTIAN FRUIT BAT--HOTTENTOT FRUIT BAT--MARITIME FRUIT BAT--MARGINED FRUIT BAT--WHITE’S FRUIT BAT--HAMMER-HEADED BAT--HARPY BAT--GREATER HARPY BAT--CLOAKED FRUIT BAT--DWARF LONG-TONGUED FRUIT BAT--BLACK-CHEEKED FRUIT BAT--FIJIAN LONG-TONGUED FRUIT BAT 266