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Show 72 JIR, G. L. BATES ON THE [Feb. 7, have been sent to me 1 have not learned to distinguish with certainty ; in the little I have to say about them I must mention them together. They are found in the daytime curled up asleep in the trees, tightly clinging to a branch. So tight is their grip of the branch that specimens have sometimes come to me mutilated in the hands, the natives who captured them declaring that it was only by cutting the fingers that they could loosen the animal's hold. Pottos are sometimes caught in traps placed on a horizontal pole or bridge crossing an open space between two pieces of forest, such as a narrow place in a garden clearing or a stream. The animal crosses on the pole in preference to descending to the ground. One specimen was killed at night on the roof of a house, to which it seemed to have wandered from the overhanging plantain-tops. A suckling female was caught in January, along with a half-grown young one. The single specimen of Arctocebus aureus that I sent to the museum is the only one of this animal I have ever seen. I found it in a village on the Benito River, where it bad just been killed by a native, who did not know what to call it. However, I have sometimes heard from natives of a rare beast like the Potto, which must be the same. T he F ruit-eating B ats. The commonest species of Epornophorus (? E. franqaeti), called " endem," probably makes more noise at night than any other creature of this country. Their monotonous croaking racket may be heard in the busli-growth about villages any night-at least if any of the wild trees growing in such places are in fruit. They were especially abundant about my house when an " Udika " tree near by was bearing. Their noise, consisting of a sort of croaking bark repeated many times in a monotone, was generally heard coming from a thicket where the bat seemed to be hanging. But sometimes, at dead of night, the sound was heard passing overhead, from a bat flying. Whenever a bunch of ripe bananas was hanging on my porch, it was visited by the bats at night. When the bananas got very soft, the bats would eat several of them in a night and bite many more. They took their bites on the wing while flying to and fro. Boys would sometimes find these bats hanging on bushes in the daytime. On the last day of August and the first of September two femaleS were biought to me, each with a half-grown young one, which had been found clinging to the mother. The big Hypsignathus monstrosus was very abundant in the mangroves and palms along the banks of the Benito River, where it made a noise like that of the " bindem," but still louder. In the Bulu country, where there are no large streams, they are not common, but are sometimes found hanging in the forest, |