Introduction 



F koto by W. Saville-Keni, F.Z.6.i 



FLYING-FOX. 



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This bat, which is a native of Australia (wlieie it was iitiotographed), is commonly called the Flying-fox. Great flocks set out at sunset 

 from the forest to feed upon the indigenous fruits, such ;is that of the native fig. 



In the island of Java, near one of the homes of the man-like apes of to-day, a 

 naturalist, M. Dubois, employed by the Dutch Government, excavated some fossil-bearing gravels 

 on a river called the Solo. These gravels 

 belong to a period when civilised man, at 

 any rate, did not exist. In them he found a 

 great quantity of bones of mammals and of 

 prehistoric crocodiles. There were no perfect 

 skeletons, and it was fairly plain that the 

 bodies of the creatures had been floated down 

 the river, and there pulled to pieces by the 

 crocodiles, just as they are in India to-day. 

 In this place, lying within a distance of 

 about fifteen yards from each other, he made 

 an extraordinary discovery of animal remains. 

 This was no less than the tojD of the skull 

 of a creature much higher in development 

 than the chimpanzee or gorilla, but lower 

 than the lowest type of human skull. Near 

 it were also found two of the teeth and 

 one of the bones of the thigh. The thigh 



Photo hi/ r 



. .UaUj, F.Z.S. 



DOLPHINS. 



This photograph was taken in mid-ocean, and shows a couple of dolpnins 

 following a ship across tlie Atlantic 



