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wings aro onco moro lifted. When taking to llight,, they swing to 

 and fro once or twice, and then let go in a backward direction. 



Pteropxis melanotus, lilyth ; 1863. — Three examples of this 

 species, collected in the " Nicobar Islands " by Capt. Lewis and 

 presented by him to the Calcutta Museum, were briefly described 

 (colour of fur) by Blyth, in 1846 (/. s. c), wlio referred them to 

 " Pi. edulis : Ft. javanicus, Horsf., &c., &c.," though with some 

 em})hasis on the peculiarities of the specimens. Seventeen years 

 later, Blyth (1863, 7. s. c.) proposed for the same specimens (now 

 reduced to the number of two) the name Pt. meliDwtus. Name 

 evidently given in allusion to the blackish back (melnnonotiis), not 

 to the black ears (meUuiohig). 



Fti'fopus nicohariciis, Zelebor ; 1869. — Type locality, Car Nico- 

 bar. Two cotypes, cJ ad. skin, J jiin. al., Yienna Museum; I have 

 exaiuined the latter and the skull of the former. 



«. 2 iium. al. ; Nicobars. Lidian Museum [E.l. Not reg. 



skull. 



h. Ad. sk. ; [Nicobars.] A. O. Huine, Esq. [P.]. 85.8.1.99. 



skull, 



c, t/. c? ad., O ad. Trinkut, Nicobars, A. O. Hume, E?q. [P.]. 85.8.1.107, 

 ska.; skulls. 17 Feb. 1873 (jr. 108. 



'64. Pteropus tytleri, Mason. 

 Pteropus nicoharinis (pt.), Dobson, Cat. Chir. 15. M. p. 54. 



Pteropus nicobaricus {nee Zelebor), Dobson, J. A. 8. B. xlii. pt. 2, 

 p. 198 (pt.) (1873 : Andamans) ; id., P. Z. S. 1873, p. 2.jO (pt.) 

 (Audamans ; sexual colour difference) ; id., Cat. Chir. Ltd. Mus. 

 pp. 2-3 (pt.) (1874 : Andamaus; colour of mantle) ; Ilwnc, Stray 

 Feathers, ii. p. 61 (1874 : Little Jolly Boy) : IJobson, Journ. 

 Anthrop. Inst. iv. pt. 2, p. 458, footnote (pt.) (1875 : Andamans) ; 

 id., Mon. As. Chir. pp. 17, 22, 188 (pt.) (1876: Andamans; 

 colour of mantle); id., Cat. Chir. B. M. p. .54 (pt.) (1878: 

 Ross I.) ; Trouessart, Rev. S,- Ma;/. Zoul. (3) vi. p. 202 (pt.) 

 (1879 : Andamans) ; J. Awlerson, Cat. Mamm. hid. Mus. pt. i. 

 p. 102 (pt.) (1881: Andamans); Jeiitink, Cat. Out. Alamm. 

 p. 259 (ls87 : Audamans) ; id., Cat. l^yst. Mamm. p. 147 (pt.) 

 (1888: Andamans); Blanford, Faun. Brit. Ind., Mamm. \it.\\. 

 p. 2G0 (pt.) (1891: Andamans); Trouessart, Cat. Mamm. i. 

 p. 81 (pt.) (1897: Andamans); Matschie, Meijachir. p. 16 (pt.) 

 (1899: Andamans); Miller, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxiv. p. 782 

 (pt.) (1902 : S. Andaman; Little Jolly Boy) ; Kloss, Andamans 

 and Nicobars, p. 325 (pt.) (1903 : 8. Andaman ; Little Jolly 

 Boy) ; Trouessart, Cut. Mamm., Sujipl. p. 50 (pt.) (1904 : 

 (.Vndamans). 



l't(>ropus tvtleri, Dcbson, Cat. CJiir. Ind. Mm. p. 3 (1874 : S. Anda- 

 man) (nom. uud.); id., Mon. As. Chir. p. 189 (1876: S. Anda- 

 man) (nom. nud.) ; Mason. Per. Ind. .Mna. ii. pt. ii. p. 1('>2 (pt.) 

 (July, 1908 : Rutland ; S. Andaman ; Little J. lly Boy). 



Dittf/nosis. — Similar to Pt. melanotus, but smaller, and with the 

 whole of the undcrparts uniform blackish ; mantle often blucki.sh 



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