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KOUSEXni.S LEAl'HI. 



more wooll)', and less closely adpressed on foreneck. Fur of body 

 extending upon upperside of humerus and proximal half or two 

 thirds of forearm ; front margin of antebrachial membrane fringed 

 with short hairs ; notopatagium naked ; femur well haired ; tibia 

 and hind foot to claws clothed with very short and thinly spread 

 hairs ; central portion of interfemoral well haired, lateral portion 

 along tibiae almost naked. Belowj proximal two thirds of forearm, 

 plagiopatagium next to body, femur, and central portion of inter- 

 femoral covered with short, thinly spread, woolly hair. 



Colour.— General aspect : above, uniform dark brown with a 

 tinge of slate, or more or less suffused with Prout's brown ; below, 

 uniform smoke-grey, or more or less suffused with wood-brown. 



Eack and rump varying from dark hair-brown tinged with slate 

 to bistre ; sides of back and rump next to membranes, in adult 

 specimens of both sexes, often approaching Prout's brown, this 

 colour sometimes extendiug over the whole of the upperside of the 

 body ; crown and occiput markedly darker than back ; nape of neck 

 lighter hair-brown. Underside uniform grizzled smoke-grey; in 

 adult specimens of both sexes the foreneck, flanks, and under 

 surface of humerus and forearm are often more or less suffused 

 with wood-brown. / 



Measurements. On p. 34. 



Range. Cape Colony, Natal, Lower Zambesi (Inhambane), north 

 to German East Africa (Tanga). 



Gotijpe in collection. 



Pteropus collaris, 111. ; 1815. — Type locality : " die ostlichen 

 [afrikanischen] Inseln." — llliger's Pteropus collaris (Abh. Akad. 

 Eerlin, 1804-11, pp. 71, 84; published 1815) is Erisson's 

 " Roussette a col rouge" (1756"), Euffon's "Eougette" (1763), 

 Kerr's Vespertilio vampi/rus subnir/er (1792), E. GeofFroy's 

 Pteropus ruhricoJlis (\S10). In 1823 Lichtenstein (l.s.c.) wrongly 

 identified llliger's Pt. collaris with the S. African F'ruit-Bat here 

 under consideration, but the error, hidden as it was in the little- 

 known" Verz. Donbl. Mus. Berlin," passed for manj' years unnoticed, 

 the species being constantly referred to as Pteropus leachi or Pt. 

 liottentottns. In 1852 Peters (' Peise nach Mossambique ') confirmed 

 Lichtcnstein's wrong identification of Pt. collaris, and from about 

 that year the names Imchi and hottentotttts gradually went out of 

 fashion, being replaced by collaris : from about 1870 leachi and 

 hottentottns only appear in the lists of synonyms of collaris. 



Pteropus leachi, A. Sm. ; 1829. — Type locality : " Gardens about 

 Cape Town"; cotype in collection. — Summary of description: 

 " supra fusco-cinereus, infra sordido-cinereus, cauda libera." The 

 earliest available technical name of the species. 



Pteropus hottaitottus, Temra. ; 1832. — Type locality : " circa 

 urbem Capensem "; type in the Leydeu Museum (authentic specimens 

 in the British Museum, see list below, specimens a-e). — Original 

 description contributed by Temminck to Smuts's ' Enuraeratio 

 Mammalium Capensium.' Temminck points out the differences 

 between Pt. hottenfofius and Pt. amj-ih.ricyjtrlafvs, but was admittedly 

 in doubt whether the former was separable from Pt, leachi 



