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THE GEOGRAPHY OF MAMMALS 



called " Flying-foxes," is interesting. Five members of this 

 genus are found in the Malagasy Sub-region, including two 

 species in the Comoro islands, and although these islands 

 are almost within sight of the mainland of Africa, not a 

 single representative of the true Pteropus has yet been 

 obtained on the continent. 



Fig. 20.— The Tenrec. 

 {Centers ecaudatus.) 



Finally, among the Lemurs we reach the culminating 

 point of the Fauna of this strange land. No less than 

 eleven genera of this Sub-order are entirely confined to the 

 Sub-region, while outside of it there are only five genera 

 now in existence, two of them belonging to Africa proper, 

 and three to the Oriental Region. 



The lemurs are none of them very large ; they are all 



