The bat is a familiar object in Palestine, where no fewer than seventeen varieties have been identified. The two commonest are the horse-shoe bat (Rhinolophus ferrum equinum) and the long-eared bat (Plecotus auritus). All varieties in Palestine are insectivorous except one, the Xantharpyia
and the stork, the heron in its kinds, and the hoopoe, and the bat.
the stork, and the heron in their kinds, and the hoopoe and the bat.
In that day men will cast away to the moles and the bats Their idols of silver and their idols of gold, Which they made for themselves to worship,
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