SPECIES OF MAMMALS OF THE PACIFIC AREA 



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group, found also in Africa and southern Asia ; they occur 

 north to Japan and the Bonin Islands and east to the Caroline 

 Islands and Samoa. They are unknown on the Marshall, Gil- 



Fig. 21 — Flying Fox 



bert, or Ellice groups, and in New Zealand, but they are found 

 in northern and eastern Australia. Fruit bats are rather closely 

 related, and in spite of small differences, are included in a sin- 

 gle family, the Pteropodidag. 



