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scjil-brown ; in one specimen the bright colour of the mantle is 

 continued, though considerablj' darkened and sprinkled Avith bufty 

 hairs, as a collar across the foreneck, in another the blackish hairs 

 of the foreneck are tipped with chestnut. Base of fur of mantle 

 and sides of neck generally blackish. — Occiput similar to mantle or 

 darker; crown seal-brown or blackish seal-brown, sometimes 

 sprinkled with huffy hairs ; in several specimens the bright colour 

 of vhe occiput extends forward on crown, though considerably 

 darkened with blackish seal-brown. Sides of head blackish seal- 

 brown with or without chestnut suffusion, sometimes thinly 

 sprinkled with huffy hairs. Throat blackish like rest of under- 

 parts 



Measnrements. On pp. 368, 3G9. 



Specimens examined. Twelve, in the collections of the Leyden 

 (five), Berlin (one), and U.S. National Museums (six *J, including 

 type of species and six para types of Ft. bctvtaiius. 



Range. Baweaii Island, Java Sea. 



Tiq^e in the Berlin Museum. 



Pteropus aternmiis, Matschie; 1899. — As first publislied by 

 Temminck, in 1846 (?. s. c), Pi. aterrinms is a nomen nudum 

 (" on pent citer [as occurring in the island of Bawean] encore nne 

 lloussette, Pteropus aterrimus, distincte du P. eduh's de Java ''). 

 Seven years later (Esq. Zool. p. 59, 1853), Temminck again mentions 

 Pt. (itcrriuius, but only to say that he now considers it indistinguish- 

 able from Pt. alecto (" c'estpar erreur que cette espoce [viz. Pt. alecto, 

 or alecton, as Temminck now writes the name] est nomme[e] P. ater- 

 riiiiKs dans le Coup-d"oeil sur les possessions ncerlandaises dans 

 rinde archipelagique, vol. i. p. 333"). The Bawean specimens 

 examined by Temminck were collected by Diard ; five are now in 

 the Leyden, one in the Berlin Afuseum. This latter specimen was 

 described by Matschie, Z. s. c. 1899, under the name " Pt. nico- 

 baricus [AbartJ b. aterrimus." Technically, the name Pt. ater- 

 rimus must of course date from this, the first published, description 

 of the species. 



Pt. Jiaveanu.?, Miller; 1906. — Accidental renaming of species. 

 Type locality, Bawean ; type in the U.S. National Museum (skin and 

 skull, 1i.'548j!). Six paratypes examined. 



70. Pteropus alecto, Temm. 



Pteropus alecto (pt.), Dobson, Cat. C'hir. B. M. p. 56. 



Pteropus alecto, Temminck, Mon. Mamm. ii. p. 75 (1837 : Monado) ; 

 Wuijmr, Schrel/er s SiiiKj., Huppl. i. p. 351 (1839: Menado); 

 «S'. Midler, in Temminck's Xal. Gesch. Nvdcrl. Overz. Bcz., Zout/d. 

 pp. 20, 59 (1839-44 : Celebes) ; Lesson, X Tabl. Ii. Anim., 

 Mamm. p. 13, no. 179 (1842 : Menado) ; Schinz, Sijsf. Verz. Sdv(/. 

 i. p. 125 (1844: Celebes); H. Besmaresf, Diet. Unit: (THiM. 

 Kat. xi. p. 248 (1848: Menado) ; Grai/, Zoid. ' >S(imnrana,' Pert. 

 p. 11 (1849: Celebes); Wagner, Schreber's i>au</., Sttppl. v. 



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