flying-foxes

The call of water birds gave way to screeching clouds of flying-foxes and the sun dropped beyond the trees.

Clovers in her hair Brentley Frazer 2012

The larger fruit bats, known as flying-foxes, are hunted extensively in Indonesia for food and medicine, but generally all fruit bats are killed by orchard owners who think they damage crops, even though these species play an important role in flower pollination and seed dispersal.

Eastern Java-Bali rain forests 2008

September and the gin-gee, the quaint, grey-barked, soft-wooded tree with broad, rough, sage-green leaves, and florets massed in clumps to resemble sunflowers, was in all its pride, attracting relays of honey-imbibing birds during the day, and at night dozens of squeaking flying-foxes.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

A tree-frog squeaks and grunts; some alert insect chirps, loud and clear; another calls furtively, in a dismal tone, half whisper, half whistle; a wallaby thuds ahead; a lizard makes a scatter among the leaves; a bird in fright flutters, blundering, among the leaves high overhead; the flying-foxes squeak and gibber among the fig-trees, as they say the ghosts did in the streets of Rome when great Caesar died.

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

When Providence sends a “white fella,” they appreciate flour, tea, sugar, potatoes, meat, and all sorts of game, from cockatoos to flying-foxes.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

They keep the dried bodies of a variety of birds for medical purposes; mongoose, squirrels and flying-foxes they eat with avidity as articles of luxury.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

And there were fairies, and bats, and flying-foxes, and flying fish.

New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925

Nor do these sounds terminate at night-fall; indeed they become louder after dark, for it is then that the flying-foxes come forth and work sad havoc among fruit of all descriptions.

A Bird Calendar for Northern India Douglas Dewar 1916

The last day we strolled in and along the river, through the forest swarming with wild pigs and pigeons, while a huge colony of flying-foxes circled in the air, forming an actual cloud, and then we came to the shore, with the wide expanse of Big Bay peaceful in the evening sun.

Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Felix Speiser 1914

Grassy plains are an unusual sight in Santo; the wide expanse of yellowish green is surrounded by dark walls of she-oak, in the branches of which hang thousands of flying-foxes.

Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific Felix Speiser 1914