Order and Family or
Sub-Family.

AHINOLOPHIDA.

NYCTERID.A.

VESPERTILIONID.E,

LMBALLONURID.E.

MAMMALS OF CEYLON—conid.

Name.

English,

Sinhalese.

Remarks,

29 Xantharpuyic | Fulvous fruit bat
amplexicaudata

Wawuld (general
term for bats)

This is a cave-haunting fruit bat,
oceurring in great numbers about
rock temples and old forts; eg.
there is a large family of them
in the old Dutch fort at Kalpitiyva.

30 Cynopterus mar
ginalus

Short-nosed fruit)
bat

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31 Rhinolophus luc-|
tus
32 R. affinis
33 Hipposiderus
diadema
34 H. galeritus
30 H.speoris

The great Eastern!
horseshoe bat
The allied horseshoe
 bat
The large Malay
leaf-nosed bat
Cantor's leaf-nosed
bat
Schneider's  leafnosed
 bat

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An up-country or highland species.

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frequents the old fort at Kalpitiya, but
not in the same dungeons with
Xantharpyia amplexicaudata.

36 H. bicolor

| The bicoloured leat.
nosed bat,

37 Megaderma lyra

Indian vampire bat

Wawuld  (general| Occurs about buildings in Colombo.
term for bats) It is said to feed upon frogs,
smaller bats, and on insects, never
on toads (Blanford).
A highland species.
Recorded from Ceylon at the British
Museum.
From Ceylon and the Malabar Coast
of India.
A common house bat.

38 M. spasma Malay vampire bat-;
39 Vesperugo noctu- The noctule bat  -la

10 V. ceylonicus 1 Kelaart’s bat -l
1 V.abramus  -| Indian pipistrelle J
£2 1, tickelli -| Tickell’s bat |
13 Nycticejus kuhli-| Jommon yellow bat
4 Harpyiocephalusl Round-eared tube
enelotis nosed bat

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do.
do.

Dr. Blanford says (op. cit., p. 327): —
“ A purchased specimen in the
British Museum is said, apparently
on fair authority, to be from Ceylon.
All the other known examples are
trom the Sikhim Himalavas

k5 Vespertilio muri
cola
16 Cerivoula picta -

I'he mustachioed
bat
. The painted bat

Kehel-wawuli(plantain
 bat)

b7 C. hardwickii | Hardwicke's bat -
18 C papillosa  -' The papillose bat *
19 Miniopterus Liong-winged bat
schreibersi
30 Taphozous longi Liong-armed sheath
manus tailed bat
531 T. saccolemus Pouch-bearing
sheath-tailed bat

[ts occurrence in Ceylon is doubtful.

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