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108. Vespertilio vampyrus, Lin.Syst.Nat.1 45. Flying Fox, Colonists of Port Jackson. This specimen, caught at Point Cunningham on the North-west Coast, appears to agree with Edwards' figure, and with the specimen preserved in the British Museum.
There is also one in the collection of the Linnean Society from Port Jackson.
Large flights of these animals were observed at Port Keats and in Cambridge Gulf, on the North-west Coast.
This bat seems also to be very abundant on the Friendly Islands, for Forster describes having seen five hundred hanging upon one casuarina tree. Forster, page 187. 2.
Canis australiae. Canis familiaris australasiae, Desmarest, Mamm.
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