Archive image from page 24 of The danger of introducing noxious. The danger of introducing noxious animals and birds dangerofintroduc00palmrich Year: 1894?] DANGEB OF INTRODUCING NOXIOUS ANIMALS AND BIRDS. 97 and was captured and kept as a pel by one of the passengers. It was promptly killed by the quarantine officer at San Francisco, and four more, which arrived in captivity two months Later from China, on the steamer Eio dt Jam iro, met the same fate Attention was called to the danger of the new pest, and one of the regulations adopted by the State hoard of horticulture in bhe following ye
Archive image from page 24 of The danger of introducing noxious. The danger of introducing noxious animals and birds dangerofintroduc00palmrich Year: 1894?] DANGEB OF INTRODUCING NOXIOUS ANIMALS AND BIRDS. 97 and was captured and kept as a pel by one of the passengers. It was promptly killed by the quarantine officer at San Francisco, and four more, which arrived in captivity two months Later from China, on the steamer Eio dt Jam iro, met the same fate Attention was called to the danger of the new pest, and one of the regulations adopted by the State hoard of horticulture in bhe following year pro- hibited the importation of these animals into California. Flying foxes belong to the genus Pti ropus (fig. l >, one of the best- known groups of fruit-eating bats. The genus includes some fifty species which are found in the tropics of the Old World, from Mada- gascar and the Comoro Islands east to Australia, and the Samoan islands, and north to India, Malay Archipelago, and southern Japan. Five species occur in Australia, two of them as far south as New South Wales (hit, 35° S.), but none are found in Xew Zealand or in the Ha- waiian Islands. The largest species is the Kalong or Malay fruit bat (Pteropus edulis), which measures more than 5 feet across the tips of the wings. In Australia these bats are de- scribed as living- in immense commu- nities or 'camps'' in the most inac- cessible parts of the dense scrub of gullies and swamps. Here they may be seen by thousands, frequently crowded so thickly on the trees that large branches are broken by their weight. They fly considerable dis- tances in search of food, sallying forth in Hocks about sunset and re- turning to their camps before dawn. In New South Wales, and more espe- cially in Queensland, flying foxes are one of the worst pests of the fruit grower, and are described as a plague which threatens the fruit-growing industry in a large part of Australia. They are particularly injurious to tigs, bananas, peaches,
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