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Colour of fur very variable ; ilark-browQ, reddish-brown, snufF-brown, olive- 

 brown ; and during the breeding season the male is distinguished by a eoUar of stiff 

 radiating reddish yellow hairs, the eoarseness and colour of which appear to depend 

 upon the presence of glan<ls on the sides and on the inferior surface of the neck, 

 siniihir to those on the shoulders of most species oi Pteropiis. Eyes white margined. 



Lengtli of male, head and body, 4'4 inches. 



Inhabits the whole of India, Arakan, Pegu, Tenasserini, and the Andaman 

 Islands. 



BIyth says this is an " extraordinarily voracious feeder, and will devour more 

 tlian its own wciglit at a meal, voiding its food, api)arently but little cliaugcd, while 

 slowly munching away." 



This statement is corroborated by Dobson, who writes (Monograpli Asiatic 

 Chiroptera, p. 25) : " To a specimen of this bat, obtained by me at Calcutta, un- 

 injured, I gave a ripe banana (])lautain), which, with the skin removed, weighed 

 exactly two ounces. The aninud immediately, as if famished with hunger, fell upon 

 the fruit, seizing it between the thumbs and the index fingers, and took larg(^ mouth- 

 fuls out of it, opening the moutli to the fullest e.xteut, with extreme voracity. In 

 the space of three hours the wliole fruit was consumed. Next morning the bat was 

 killed, and found to weigh one ounce, half the weight of the food eaten in three 

 hours ! Indeed the animal when eating seemed to be a kind of living mill, the food 

 passing from it almost as fast as devoured, and apparently unaltered, eating being 

 performed alone for the sake of the pleasure of eating." 



C. BRACHVOxrs, Miill. 



C. nmrginatus, var. Aiiifiimeniis, Dob. 



llcsemblcs C. marginatiis, but the ears arc ranch smaller, 0'7 long, Ifl-l liroad, 

 against 0'9.5 and O'G in C. iii.an/inafun. 

 Inhabits the Andaman Islands. 



C. BRACHYSOMA, DobsOn. 



Body short and thick. Eur slaty blue, with a greyish or silvery tinge, the tips 

 of the hairs sooty-brown. 



Length of adult female, 2-9; tail 0-2o=:3'15 inches. 

 Inhabits the Southern Andaman Island. 



C. SCHEEZEEI, Fitz. 



Resembles C. marginalus, but its ears are much smaller and not margined with 

 white. 



Length of adult female 3'70 ; tail 0'5.5 = 4'25 inches. 



Inhabits Car-Nicobar Island. Found beneath the leaves of cocoa-nut palms. 



Cyxonyctjiris, Peters. 



Muzzle long and cylindrical, upper lip with a wide groove in front, with smooth 

 not elevated margins. Inde.x finger with a claw. Tail short. 



Dentition, I. J; C. | ; P.M. f j M. f . 



C. (Pteeopus) amplexicaudatds, Geoff. 

 Pteropus Leschenatdtii, Desmar. 

 P. seminudus, Kelaart. 



Head long, triangular. Upper lip with a wide groove directly continuous with 

 the emargination between the nostrds. The edges of the groove smooth, not 

 thickened as in Pteropus and Cymipteriis. Ears moderate, triangular, rounded at 

 tlio tips. Fur short, from dark olive or smoky-brown to reddish or yellowish-brown. 

 First lower premolar small, not half the size of next one. 



Length of male, head and body, 4'3; tail 0'6.5 inches. 



Inhabits Bengal, Southern India, Burma, etc. 



EoNYCTEEis, Dobson. 



Muzzle long and cylindrical, upper lip with a shallow vertical groove. Index 

 finger without a claw. Tail short. 



