n-KJtoM? jjvi (i.\ji;i.ANys lltkis. 129 



^Aaeh on throat aud anal region. forearm 12<S-,j-13o'r) mm. 

 Hah. New Guinea, as far south-east as Woodiark I. 



Colour (whole series examined).^ — Back and rump varying in 

 tinge from a sliade of brown approaching seal-brown (two speci- 

 mens), through vandyck-brown (two), to mars-brown (three), the 

 lighter tinges, viz. vandyck-brown and mars-brown, evidently due to 

 a more or less complete suffusion of a darker shade of brown with 

 russet (as is the case in most races of the species), a slighter suffusion 

 with russet making the general effect of (he colour vandyck-brown, 

 a stronger suffusion mars-brown. Colour uniform, or rather paler 

 on rump thnn on back. The usual admixture of silvery greyish-white 

 hairs in all specimens so slight as not to change the general uniform 

 aspect of the colour. — Breast and belly varying froin ochraceous-butf 

 with a peculiar golden hue, to cream-buff, this colour in most 

 specimens extending over the whole of the breast and belly, while 

 in others the liinder part of the belly is more or less (in one 

 strongly) clouded with brown of a shade similar to that of the back. 

 Bright-coloured hairs uniform from tip to base, or with concealed 

 dark brown bases. Flanks brownish, similar to back. — €rown, 

 mantle, sides of neck, and foreneck similar to breast and belly ; 

 sides of head often washed with russet or brownish ; throat similar 

 to foreneck, or clouded with paler or darker vandyck-brown. 



No blackish phase known. 



Measurement!^. On pp. 130, 131. 



Specimens examined. See list below. 



liange. New Guinea; Conflict Is. (Itamarina) ; Trobrjand Group 

 (Kiriwina) ; Woodiark I. 



'J't/jie in collection. 



liemarks. — The difference in colour between Pt. h. luteits and any 

 of the western races ((/eniiiiu^i, em/nnus, condorensis, cantis, lepidw., 

 anneciens, tomest) is great, but the gap is completely over-bridged 

 by those races which, step for step, through the Gilolo group {hj/po- 

 melanus), Ctilehes (macassaricus). and Philippines (rar/f'y/rtMMs), lead, 

 in colour as in geographical habitat, from hiieas to the darker- 

 coloured western races. The intimate relationship between all 

 these forms is further shown by the fact that, save iu the colour 

 of the fur, they are in all respects (». €. in skull, teeth, ears, 

 (juality, distribution and length of fur, and external dimensions) 

 indistinguisliable from each other, except enganvs which averages 

 smaller, aiul ran us and lepidu^ in which the teeth average slightly 

 larger. 



