large bat commonly known as flying-fox which visits the trees in 
the dusk in large numbers. In eating the rind, the bat seldom da 
does any damage to the germinative power of the seed, on the con 
trary the seed without the rind seems in some cases to germinate 
better than the one with the rind.Often the bat carries the 
fruits at a considerable distance from the tree before it eats 
the rind and discards the remaining teat*, of the fruits. In 
view of this the bat may be said to do some beneficial service 
to the tree in return to what it gets as a food; for, unlike its 
confrere the s 4 uirrel which tends to restrict the tree’s progeny 
as much as it can by eating the germs in the seeds, the bat exert 
an influence which facilitates the distribution of the tree 
s £ increases the chance of 
to a larger area, and in some case 
germination* 
