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has also been decimated by epizootics, even more than the Buffalo 

 has been, and at the same periods. It seems to be quite capable of 

 domestication. It has been partly protected since 1929, and it occurs 

 in small numbers in all the parks and preserves of Ubangi-Shari. 



In the French Cameroons there are still some hundred head, 

 living in the north. They are absolutely protected, except on 

 scientific permit. (Paris Agency, in litt., November, 1936.) 



Powell-Cotton (in Maydon, 1932, pi. 136) presents a photograph 

 of a specimen from Kone Hills, south of Garua, French Cameroons. 



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Too late for presentation elsewhere in this volume, the following 

 information has come to hand concerning an apparently extinct 

 New Zealand species: 



The Short-tailed Bat (Mystacina tuberculata *) "is on the brink 

 of extinction, and may, indeed, even now have ceased to exist. 

 . . . Many years have passed away since one of the species was 

 recorded." (F. W. Hutton and J. Drummond, Animals of New 

 Zealand, pp. 31-32, 1904.) The species is confined to New Zealand 

 and forms a family by itself (G. M. Allen, Bats, p. 206, fig. 40, 1939) . 

 "Neither axe nor fire entirely explain [its] disappearance." It 

 "was always an extremely rare creature." It may have become 

 the victim of an epizootic. (Perrine Moncrieff, Jour. Soc. Preserva- 

 tion Fauna Empire, n. s., pt. 49, p. 13, 1944.) 



With the disappearance of this bat an entire family (the Mysta- 

 cinidae) has become extinct. The only other indigenous land mam- 

 mal of New Zealand, the Long-tailed Bat (Chalinolobus morio 

 (Gray)), seems likewise to have become extirpated in that country; 

 it survives, however, in Australia and Tasmania. 



i Vespertilio tuberculatus "G. Forster" J. E. Gray, in E. Dieffenbach, Travels 

 in New Zealand, vol. 2, pp. 181, 296, 1843. ("Dusky Bay, New Zealand.") 



