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at a distance of several miles from the nearest water, the third near 

 the course of the Binder then largely dried up. This last specimen is 

 appreciably darker in color, less brown, than the two from the Blue 

 Nile. The type locality is Sennar Province on the White Nile. 



Epomophorus labiatus (Temminck). 



Large-lipped Fruit Bat. 



Pteropus labiatus Temminck, Monogr. mammalogie, 1835-41, 2, p. 83, pi. 39, 

 fig. 1-3. 



At Fazogli on the Blue Nile, and at Um Orug on the upper Binder 

 River, fruit bats came nightly to feed on the berry-like fruit of a 

 large fig tree with thick green leaves that grew by the river's brink. 

 Numbers of them were visible in the moonlight darting about, hovering 

 momentarily to feed, or apparently alighting here and there in order 

 to obtain the berries. A curious hoarse squeak was frequently uttered 

 as they flew about. Of three specimens secured, one female proves to 

 be of this species. Wroughton has also recorded a specimen taken at 

 Gebel Maba, 25 miles south of Roseires, and Andersen notes two 

 males from Roseires in the British Museum. According to this 

 author (1912, p. 531) Sennar is the type locality, not "Abyssinia" as 

 given by Temminck. 



Epomophorus anurus Heuglin. 

 Heuglin's Fruit Bat. 



Epomophorus anurus Heuglin, Nova acta Acad. Leop. Carol., 1864, 31, art. 7, 

 p. 12. 



An adult male and a female were taken at Fazogli. Andersen (1912) 

 shows that in this species the males are much larger than the females, 

 whereas in E. labiatus there is practically no such disparity between 

 the sexes. The females of the two species however, in their extremes, 

 closely approach each other. This author gives the range as from 

 Erythrea and Abyssinia to British and German East Africa, Uganda 

 and Bahr-el-Ghazal. Its occurrence in eastern Sennar is therefore 

 of interest, and perhaps not unexpected. 



An immature specimen of the Egyptian Rousette Bat (Eidolon 

 helvum) without skull, is recorded by Wrougkton (1911, p. 458) as 

 sent to the British Museum from Roseires, by Mr. A. L. Butler. We 

 did not meet with the species. 



