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MAMMALIA. 



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Onhr IL—CIIIBOrTEEA. 

 Family 0.— rTEEOPID.E. (9 CJeiiera, Go Species.) 



General Distribution. 



Nkotropical 



St;B-REGIONS. 



Nearctic 

 Sub-regions. 



Pal.earctic 

 sub-uegion.s. 



Ethiopian I Oiuintvl 

 Sub-regions. Sub-klgijns. 



AU.STRALIAX 

 SUB-KEGIONd. 



1.2.3.4 1.2.3.4 1.2.3 



The rteropid?e, or fruit-eating Bats, sonietinies called flying- 

 foxes, are pretty evenly distributed over the tropical regions of 

 the Old World and Australia. They range over all Africa and 

 the whole of the Oriental Eegion, and northward, to Anioy in 

 China and to the South of Japan. Tliey are also found in tlie 

 more fertile parts of Australia and Tasmania, and in the Pacific 

 Islands as far east as the ]\[arianne and Samoa Islands ; but not 

 in the Sandwich Islands or New Zealand. 



The genera of bats are exceedingly numerous, l»ul they are in 

 a very unsettled state, and the synonymy is exceedingly con- 

 fused. The details of their distribution cannot therefore 1)0 

 usefully entered into here. The Pteropidce differ so much from 

 all other bats, that they are considered to form a distinct 

 suborder of Chiroptera, and by some naturalists even a distinct 

 order of Mammalia. 



No fossil Pteropidaj liave been discovered. 



Family 10.— PHYLLOSTOMID.F. (^l Oenera, m Species.) 



General Distrii5utio\. 



Nkotropical 



SL'B-KEGI0N.S. 



Nearctic I Pal^arctic 

 SUB-REGION.S. Sub-regions. 



Ethiopi \n 

 Sub-regions. 



Oiii:!;ntai 

 sub-regidss. 



Australian 

 Sub-regions. 



1.2.3 — 



The PhyllostomidiTe, or simple leaf-nosed Bats, are confined to 

 the Neotropical region, from Mexico and the Antilles to the 



