rrr:i:orcs gkisk;s. J3!? 



region. Cjricealed b.ises of hairs everywhere biowuisl). — Muntlo 

 buft'y, titrougly contrasting with back, palest (cream-bufFy) pos- 

 teriorly on shoulders, tinged with tawny orange-buff on nape of 

 neck and shading into a deeper tawny on sides of neck and foreuetk. 

 Short bases of hairs of mantle and sides of neck dark brown ; hairs 

 of forcneck uniform to extreme base. — Crown pale cream-buff with 

 concealed brownish bases to the hairs, gradually shading on occiput 

 into tlic colour of the mantle. Sides of head similar to crown but 

 Bomewhat blotched with tawny. Throat mixed pale greyish and 

 dark brown. 



Intermediate colour phase : 5 skin, quite or almost full-grown, 

 Dv'ampea, 97.1.3.4. — Uack greyish sprinkled with brownish hairs, the 

 former colour predominant, producing the general effect of a tinge 

 approaching smoke-grey. — Ereast, belly, Hanks, and anal region 

 light wood-browu with a delicate tinge of pale cinnamon, more 

 distinct on Hanks and anal region than on breast and belly. Con- 

 cealed bases of hairs dark brown.— Mantle pale cinnamon wood- 

 brown, shading into cream-huffy posteriorly, and into a slightly 

 deeper cinnamon wood-brown on sides of neck and foreneck. Base 

 of hairs of mantle and sides of neck daik brown ; hairs of foreneck 

 uniform. — Crown and sides of head whitish grey. Throat similar, 

 but somewhat mixed with brownish, particularly in centre. 



Pale extreme: 6 imm. skin, almost full-grown, Bonerato, 

 97.1. 3. o. — Back and rump greyish white with n faint tinge of 

 cream-buffy particularly on rump ; base of hairs slightly darker. 

 Head and underparts aa in foregoing; mantle somewhat ])uler. 



Measurements. On pp. 140, 141. 



Specimens examined. Ten, in the collections of the Paris, Leyden, 

 and British Museums, including the type of the species. 



liange. Timor, with Samao ; Bonerato ; Dyampea ; ? Salayer 

 (Specimens not examined). 



Type in the Paris Museum. 



Pteropus r/riseus, Geoff'.; 1810. — Based, it would seem, on three 

 specimens (" nous en possedons les deux sexes et la femelle, avec 

 de longues tetines "), ol)taincd in Timor, during Pcron and Lesueur's 

 voyage. Of these one, or perhaps two, arc now in the Paris 

 Museum, viz. (1) a female, not quite full-grown, mounted for front 

 view, wings spread, skull in skin, colour much faded (Peg. no. A. 42) ; 

 probably not the original of Geollroy's plate ; (2) a young skull, 

 in the Museum d'anatomie comparc'e (A. 6745), marked ^-Pteropus 

 rjriseiis (Geoff.) ; type"; the evidence that this is really the skull of 

 one of Peion and Lcsueur's specimens appears to be unsatisfactory. 



Temminck's Pt. r/risens, 1825 (1. s. c.), is Geott'ioy's Pt. f/riseus 

 redescribed and refigured by a copy of Geoff'roy's plate. His P(. 

 (/riseus, 1837 (1. s. c), is a mixture of two species, viz.: (1) the 

 true Pt. griseus; of Temminck's original material (1837) arc now 

 in the Leyden iluseum four mounted specimens, from Samao and 

 Timor (Cat. Syst. pp. 140, 141, sub Pt. femmiucki, a, b, i, j\ 

 and one skeleton, from Samao {Cat. Ost. p. 254, a) ; the skull of 



