36 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 



MAMMALIA. 

 CHIROPTERA. 



The Victorian Bats have not been thoroughly collected or 

 studied. Bats, too, as winged animals with considerable powers 

 of flight would be capable of being carried with ease over such 

 barriers as the Dividing Bange or Bass's Straits. Wallace states 

 that two small species of North American bats occasionally reach 

 Bermuda, a distance of at least 700 miles. Nyctinomus australis 

 occurs in New Guinea, N. plicatus in India, and Nyctophilus 

 timoriensis all over Australia and in the Malay Archipelago. We 

 cannot conclude much from our table then, except that we may 

 probably consider that the conspicuous absence of Fruit Bats 

 from Tasmanian orchards is due in parts to the lower tempera- 

 tures of the southern island. 



* Said to occur all over Australia 



