Show IGNORANCE P RES on confused fused stories aut ali it tle trio 13 bat of south america ever adrice the south american continent conti neu that part bof of lt it especially t fras as discovered between the amazon and oranoca frine there vi ith from front ri vers traveler travel erg bavo have conic come wonderful tale tales of the vampire or aa t hey call them bloodsucking bats aral Asa fact let little la Is known about these pdt that there aro are bloodsucking ing w lich fl feed ted not only on the blood of ronn man but I 1 atteo I 1 aw an though the wr writ I 1 I 1 b U an ur undoubted doubted fact and b bitten itten by one ill h I 1 ti himself has haa never 1 been eu I 1 1 to s 1 the 1 rl 1 arf a libil L n y il 1 1 L aule e b C 1 jn the C 01 it allun nose ta tle va tile all t finals oe aar are est liable to io lir FE tell any altre allow the alt dol its 4 worl hnz s riot L li made clear for no man has yet awik enal while being opera on iy ay olle of ti lese inels abo u baet talt blooml aad wore or I 1 ea 1014 10 14 of bood takes place after theolic it 11 bable toro that the bat lovers 1 tl operation rather than rests on oil the body the rapid vibration of the loft S 1 probably y a 1 has a soothing ang effect on 01 I 1 tile i abkin in of the thol part X t operated on the acke belong to only two or three species a and 1 1 wherever these are found there mo m o al o 0 to n others how food la is only fruit or insects or both the mot natural mistake about the bats bits which are innocent of preying on man or beast Is the common supposition thai that pyrus u c trum train is a bloed bloodsucker sucker the stretch of will 93 of this bat b it frequently reaches three feu ft and it ha has it most ferocious aspect willi with enormously largeant largo large and pointed canine teeth it itis Is perfectly certain that in most parts 0 of f Hrit lali guiana this bat Is lionly only a fruit enter and andis is a herbow iest pest to fruit growers dates bates and ei edwardi dward 4 who trav traveled led much in that country vouch for its harmlessness harm lesine and the writer could never hear of a case where one of these giant bats waa was even pecked of bel beldea g a bloodsucker wallace however gives T a different account tho the ram vampires pires aro are especially plentiful in the amazon valley their carnivorous propensities were once discredited but aro are too well authenticated horses and cattle were 0 often bitten and wo found them in the morning covered with blood and repeated a attacks weaken and ultimately destroy them some persons are especially s subject to the attacks of these bats and as native 0 huta huts aro are never sufficiently close to k keep cell them thern out those unfortunate to pe persons arso na a are re obliged to sleep bleep completely muffled up in 0 ader to avold being made seriously ill or e ven lo 10 so ing their llam wallace in saying that the huts aro are never sufficiently close to keep them out pt evidently uses theford the word vampire as its a generic term and does not mean the pyrus Is spectrum pec trum for that bat would find no space large enough to lathim let him into even the loosely built huts of the natives it is this slipshod way of using the term vampire that brin baingi 94 trouble to many a useful bat the writer has been la in a house where every precaution waa was taken to keep out bats which would have been it perfect blessing in the rooms as they would have caught hundreds of mosquitoes New lw york tribune |