212 PTKROPUS SEYC'HELLIONSIS. 



30. Pteropus seycliellensis, Mllne-Edw. 

 Pteropus edtuardsi (pt.), I*obson, Cat. Chir. B.M. p. 53. 



Pteropus edwardsi {n£c E. Geoff.), Wright, Ann. ^ Mag. N.H. (4) ii. 



p. 4-j6 (1868 : Seychelles ; habits) ; Wallace, Geogr. Distr. Anim. 



i. p. 281 (1876 : Seychelles) ; Dobson, op. s. c. p. 53 (pt.) (1878 : 



Seychelles); Trouessart, Rev. i^- Mag. Zool. (3) vi. p. 202 (pt.) 



(1879: Seychelles). 

 Pteropus seycliellensis, A. Mibie-Edicards, Ball. Soc. Fkilom. (7) 



ii. p. 221 (1887: Seychelles); Trouessart, Cat. Mnmm. i. p. 81 



(1897: Seychelles) ; Miller, Fam. Sr Gen. Bats, p. 58 (1907). 

 Pteropus edwardsi a. seychellensis, Matschie, Megachir. p. 16 (1899 : 



Seychelles) ; Trouessart, Cat. Mavnn., Suppl. p. 50 (1904 : 



Seychelles). 



Diagnosis. — Similar to Pt. comorensls, but dark colour of back 

 and rump conspicuously sprinkled with silvery greyish-white. 

 Hah. Seychelles. 



Skull and external characters, except colour of fur, as in 

 Pt. comorensis ; teeth on the whole slightly smaller. 



Colour (four specimens, slightly immature ; cotypes). — Back and 

 rump blackish seal-brown conspicuously sprinkled with glossy 

 silvery greyish-white hairs, particularly on sides of back along 

 membranes and on rump ; owing to the mixture of seal-brown and 

 greyish-white the general impression of the colour of the rump and 

 hinder back approaches hair-brown or even very light mouse-grey ; 

 the degree of sprinkling with light-coloured hairs, though always 

 conspicuous, is not equally strong in all specimens. — Breast and belly 

 with long seal-brown bases to tho hairs and short ochraceous or 

 ochraceous-buff tips ; these latter being too short to completely 

 cover the dark bases, the general aspect of the colour is a dark 

 brownish, lightened or thickly blotched with ochraceous or ochra- 

 ceous-buff ; some long shiny silvery greyish- white hairs on breast 

 and belly. Flanks and anal region more uniform blackish seal- 

 brown, some of the hairs with short ochraceous tips ; a slight 

 sprinkling with greyish-white hairs. — Mantle, occiput, crown, and 

 sides of head and neck golden ochraceous-buff, in many places 

 deepening to rich golden ochraceous, all the hairs with concealed 

 blackish seal-brown bases ; foreneck similar, or clouded with pale 

 russet. Muzzle, chin, and throat blackish, as in Pt. rufus and 

 com07'ensis. 



As will be noticed from the above description, the only essential 

 difference in colour from Pt. rufus and comorensis is the pronounced 

 admixture of greyish-white on back and rump, and the darker 

 colour of breast and belly, this latter owing to the bright tips of the 

 hairs being shorter, and the dark ground-colour of the fur therefore 

 more exposed. — 



Measurements. On pp. 221, 222. 



Specimens examined. Eight, in the collections of the Paris (five), 

 Berlin (one), and British Museums (two), including the cotypes of 

 the species. 



