472 HOii'oOSIA. VIKIDIS. 



Doltsouia viridii:, K. Andersen, Ann. &,• 3Ltf/. X. T{. (S) \v. pp. 530, 



533(1909: characters: atfinitifs.). 

 Ceplialotes palliatus (pt.), Miitschie, Mcguchir. p. 87 (1899: Key 



Is.); Trvvessati, Cat. Mamin., Suj>/)/. p. (i-l, n. u5o (1U04). 

 PoWonia paliata (pt.), JenfinL; jS'vtes Lcijd. Mas. xxviii. p. 166 



(lyOti: Banda: Atuboiua). 

 r N vctiiiu'iie palliatus, Elliot, Cat. Manwi. Field Col. Mus. p. 494, 



ii'. 870 (1907 : Moluccas). 



DicKjnosis. — rOj and m' willi well differentiated antero-internal 

 cusp ; generally a distinct notch or depression in outer and inner 

 longitiulinal ridges of p^, m', p^, and m,, behind main cusp of teeth. 

 Maxillary tooth-row (c-m", crowns) 18'2-19'8 ram. ; forearm Hi- 

 ll 8. Uah. Amboina group ; Eanda Is. ; Key Is. 



SJntU. — Essential characters as in D. peroni, but rostrum dis- 

 tinctly shorter, front of orbit to tip of nasals equal to or eveu 

 slightly less than (in the moluccensis and peroni type of skull more 

 than) breadth across lower edges of lachrymal foramina. 



Deniitioii*. — A well-marked antero-iiiternnl basal ledge in m', 

 with free margin raised as a distiuct pointed cusp, and separated 

 by a generally deep notch from inner main cusp of tooth ; 

 t orresponding ledge in p", p", p^, p^, and m, as strongly differ- 

 entiated as (or rather averaging larger than) in D. peroni. 

 Posterior basal ledge in p^, p'*, Pg, p^, and m^ unusually large, 

 iledian surface-ridge in p'', m', m,, and m^, as alwajs in Dohsonht, 

 individually sonuwhat varying in development, but on the whole 

 decidedly reaching a greater prominence than in the foregoing 

 species ; in p* and m^ often taking shape of a high freely projecting 

 conical cusp, in m' amd m, generally forming a sharp keel. 

 Generally a more or less distinct notch in cutting-edge of outer 

 and inner longitudinal ridges of p**, m\ p^, and m^ (more rarely 

 traceable also in p^ and pj behind main cusp of teeth ; the notch 

 is sometimes deep and acute, sometimes a shallow and flatly 

 rounded depression, rarely entirely absent; a second notch not 

 infrequenlly present behind the former, making (in extreme cases) 

 the ])rofile of the longitudinal ridge of m' and mj peculiarly 

 crennlate or serrate. Cheek-teeth rather more crowded than in 

 foregoing species, and upper canine and p^ more narrowly spaced, 

 i. somewhat reduced and, at least in some individuals, deciduous ; 

 in nine adult skulls examined i.-i._j are present in five, absent (and 

 their alveoli filled out) in four. Lower canines more narrowly 

 sjiaced than in ibregoing species, sometimes practically in contact. 

 Colour. — S ad. skin, teeth nearly unworn, Ceram, undated, 

 (il. 12.11. 4: Back of neck light tawny-olive, shading to bistre 

 thinly c-prinklcd with tawmy-olive on head. Ilnderparts pale drab, 

 thickly mixed with very Jight golden tawny-olive on foreneck, 

 sides of breast, and belly, and with raw-umber on middle of breast. 

 This is the palest-coloured individual of the Coram series, but 

 an adult male and female from the Key Islands (al., Berlin, 

 4702) would .seem to be paler still ; it was no doubt specimens of 



- Figs. -25 A', B', C, D', p. -JJI. 



