As we rode out of Banawe we could see on the wooded sky-line to our right front a cut as though of a road through the forest; it was not a road, of course, but an opening normal to the crest of the ridge. Across this a net is stretched, and the bats, flying in swarms by night to clear the top, drop into the cut on reaching it, and so are caught in the net in flying across. We saw several such bat-traps during our trip. In this way these highlanders [124] eke out their meager supply of meat. The bat in question is not the animal we are familiar with, but the immensely larger fruit bat, the flesh of which is readily eaten.
--from Chapter XVII, The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon From Ifugao to Kalinga, by Cornelis De Witt Willcox, Kansas City, Mo., U.S.A., Franklin Hudson Publishing Co., 1912.
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