"Their bones lay in undisturbed order, probably as the corpses had been stretched after death.
"After capturing two or three long-tailed bats, of a species new to us, which were the only living occupants of the cave, we crept out, with a feeling of religious awe, from this strange, sepulchral cavern."
Besides the species of bats that have been described, it is probable that representatives of several more families of bats inhabit Palestine.
LEOPARDS.