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large rufous Bornean Proboscis Monkey (Wasalis 
larvatus), as well as several albinoes. 
The fifth case gives an idea of the 
Seals on the upper shelves, Chiroptera and Insectivora 
on the lower. 
Of the Seals one of the finest is the Harp-Seal or 
Greenland Seal, of a yellowish white colour, with a 
somewhat harp-shaped black mark on the back. This 
Seal is Arctic in its distribution, and a very rare 
and casual visitor to the British Islands. Up to this 
year only one skull had been definitely identified as 
a British specimen; but this specimen was taken near 
Bournemouth, on the Hampshire coast, and is thus 
the first complete British specimen on record. There 
is also the Common Seal (Phoca vitulind) and the rare 
Caspian Seal {Ph. caspica). 
Among the Chiroptera, the flying mammals, as they 
may well be called, being the only class of mammals 
with real wings and power of flight, we find two 
natural groups, i.e. the generally larger fruit-eating 
Bats, commonly known as “ Flying Foxes ” or Fox- 
Bats, which are (as, for example, in Calcutta) very 
destructive to ripe fruit, and the generally smaller 
insectivorous Bats, to which all our British species 
belong. The South American Vampire Bats are 
bloodsuckers, either partially or entirely. An interest- 
ing form is, above others, the Cheiromeles torquatus. 
