CHAP. XVII.] 
MAMMALIA. 
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Order IT. — CIIIBOPTERA . 
Family 9.— FTEKOPIILE. (9 Genera, 65 Species.) 
General Distkibution. 
Neotropical I 
Sub-regions. 
NE ARCTIC 
Sub-regions. 
PaL/EARCTIC 
Sub-regions. 
Ethiopian 
Sub-regions. 
Oriental 
SUB-IilCUJNS. 
Australian 
Sub-regions. 
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4 
1 . 2 . 3, 4 
1 . 2 . 3.4 
1 . 2 . 3 — 
The Pteropidse, or fruit-eating Bats, sometimes 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 Region, and northward, to Amoy in 
China and to the South of Japan. They are also found in the 
more fertile parts of Australia and Tasmania, and in the Pacific 
Islands as far east as the Marianne and Samoa Islands ; but not 
in the Sandwich Islands or New Zealand. 
The genera of bats are exceedingly numerous, but they are in 
a very unsettled state, and the synonymy is exceedingly con- 
fused. The details of their distribution cannot therefore be 
usefully entered into here. The Pteropidee differ so much from 
all other bats, that they are considered to form a distinct 
suborder of Cliiroptera, and by some naturalists even a distinct 
order of Mammalia. 
No fossil Pteropidas have been discovered. 
Family 10. — PHYLLOSTOMIDAE. (31 Genera, 60 Species.) 
General Distribution. 
Neotropical 
Sub-regions. 
NEARCTIO 
Sub-regions. 
Pal^earotic 
Sub-regions. 
Ethiopi \n 
Sub-regions. 
O.uentai 
Sub-regions. 
Australian 
Sub-regions. 
1 . 2.3 — 
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The Phyllostomidse, or simple leaf-nosed Bats, are confined to 
the Neotropical region, from Mexico and the Antilles to .the 
