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NOTOPIERIS MACDONALUI. 



3Iamm. B. M. p. 58* (1862: Viti Levu) : Gray, P. Z. S. 18«6, 

 p. 64 ; Peters, MB. Ak. Berlin, 1867, p. 872 ; Grat/, Cat. Monk, 

 ^c p. 114 (1870: Viti Leva); Bobson, Cut. Chir.B. M. p. 9-3 

 (1878 : Viti Levu ; Aiieiteuni) ; Trouessart, Rev. 4- Mnq. Zool. 

 (3) vi. p. 209, n. 338 (1879) ; Tliomas, P. Z. S. 1880. p. 11 (Fiji 

 Is. : von Hiio-el OoU.) ; Jentink, Cat. Oat. Mamm. p.' 268 (1887 : 

 Ponapi5) ; id., Cat. Si/st. Mamm. p. 158 (1888: PonapS; Viti 

 Levu); Flotver ^ Lydekker, Ma>n,n. -p- ^'•'^4: {IS^il) ; Troue.isarf., 

 Cat. Mamm. i. p. 90, n. 491 (1897) ; Mntschie, Meqachir. p. 88 

 ( 1899 : Viti Levu) ; Tr<^uessnrt, Cat. Mamm., Supply. 67, n. 570 

 (1904) ; Miller, Fam. ^- Gen. Bats, p. 7o (1907). " 



Diagnosis. — See " Synopsis," p. 797. 



Fur. — Notopatagium (membrane covering back from shoulders to 

 rump) so thinly haired as to appear practically naked ; shoulders and 

 rump furred ; dorsal surface of body, beneath notopatagium, clothed 

 as usual (as in Dohsonia). Basal third or fourth of forearm thinly 

 haired above ; extremity of femur and uppcrside of tibia with few 

 and thinly scattered hairs. Length of fur, shoulders 7 (general 

 mass of hairs) and 11 mm. (longest hairs), breast 6 and 9. 



Colour. — c? ad. skin, December, Fijis (1.6.2.5.1) : General colour 

 of nape of neck and shoulders between bistre and raw umber ; indi- 

 vidual hairs of shoulders uniform from base to tip, those of nape of 

 neck warmer brown at concealed bases ; rump olive hair-brown ; 

 head almost sepia, this tinge shading posteriorly into that of nape, 

 inferiorly into that of throat and foreneck ; breast and belly dark 

 drab (or broccoli-brown) slightly tinged with Isabella, this colour 

 passing gradually into a duller hair-brown on foreneck and throat. 



Two immature skins (Fijis ; forearms .59 and 60 mm.) are similar 

 in colour to the above, but distinctly paler, more brownish above 

 (possibly owing to some fading of the fur). A still younger specimen 

 (skin, Fijis; forearm 5.3 mm., evidently in baby pelage) is uniform 

 brown-drab above, dull drab beneath. 



Mensurements. On pp. 806-808. 



Specimens examined. Those in collection. 



Range. New Hebrides (Aneiteum) and Fiji Islands (Viti Levu). 

 Recoi'ded also from the Caroline Islands (Ponape : two immature 

 specimens in the Leyden Museum). 



Gotypes in collection (two immature specimens, forearms 53 and 

 59 mm. ; the forearm of an adult topotype measures 68"5 mm.). 



a,b. 1 iram., 1 $ Viti Levu, Fijis; Sept. Lords of the Ad- 58.12.27.5,6. 



imra.sks. ; 1857 (Dr. John D. Mac- iiiiralty [P.]. 



skulls. donald). (Cot t/pes of s'peclea.) 



c. Lnm. skull. Yiii Levu {Dr. J. D. ^f.). Lords of the Ad- 58.12.27.116. 



miralty [P.]. 



d. Imm. sk. ; Kalambon Cave, R. Wai- Baron A. von Hiigel 79.11.16.26. 



skull. ni-maiin, Viti Levu ; [C. & P.]. 



July, 1877. 



e. iS ad. sk. ; Caves at Kolobo, Fijis; C. M. Woodford, 1.6.25.1. 



skull. 18 Dec. 1894. Esq. [C.]. 



/ c? ad. al. ; Aneiteum, New Hebrides. Purchased (Cuming). 60.7.18.79. 

 skull. 



* Generic name misspelt Nofopferiis 



