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KINDLY permit me to ask for a further explanation from Mr. Geo. J. Romanes about the vampire bat, in regard to which he says in his criticism of “Zoological Sketches” (Oswald): “Mr. Bates says (I presume it is a clerical error giving Mr. Belt as the authority) the vampire, however, is the most harmless of all bats.” Yet he, Mr. Bates, would lead us to believe that a species of the same genus, Phyllostoma, is a blood-sucker, and had even attacked himself (see p. 91 of the fifth edition of his “Naturalist on the Amazon”).
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WORKMAN, T. The “Vampire Bat”. Nature 27, 411 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/027411c0
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