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IX.—TuHE Bar (Pteropus edulis). The Arial type. 
The Fox-bat belongs to the order Chiroptera and to the 
sub-order Megachiroptera. The other sub-order of the 
Microchiroptera includes the small British bats. As a rule, 
Fig. 379. FEMALE AND YOUNG OF A Fox-Bat 
(Xantharpyia collaris). 
(From ScLaTER, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1870.) 
the Megachiropiera are fruit-eating and the Microchiroptera 
feed upon insects. As shown below, this is correlated with 
the greater adaptation to flight in the latter. However, 
the fox-bat is here taken as a type because its greater size 
facilitates an examination of its anatomy. 
