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approacliing soal-browii, heavily mixed with silvery greyish buff 

 liairs ; sides ot licad eirailar, but more Ihiiily sprinkled willi {uilo 

 hairs ; chin and throat blackish seal-brown. 



Topotype (J ad. skin, 9.10.14.1) : Differing chiefly in the con- 

 siderably lighter tinges of all tlie briglit-eoloured portions of the 

 t'ur. Back blackish, shading into dark vandyck-l)rown on rump, 

 femur, and lateral interfemoral. Breast and belly warm russet 

 (tips of the hairs), with the paler ocliraceous-buffy subapical portion 

 of the fur showing through in most places ; dark b'-own bases of 

 hairs absent or extremely short. Mantle tawny cinnanion-rui'ous, 

 this tinge becoming gradually deeper (between cinnamon-rufous 

 and light cliestnut, but still with a deep tawny gloss) on sides of 

 neck and forenock ; bases of hairs of mantle ochraceous or ochra- 

 ceous-buff, those of foreneck rather tawny-ochraceous ; extreme 

 ])ostcrior margin of mantle ochraceous, forming an almost straight 

 transverse line across shoulders between mantle and blackish back. 

 Occiput, crown, forehead, and sides of head similar to mantle and 

 sides of neck, but conspicuously sprinkled with glossy ochraceous- 

 buff hairs; muzzle, chin, and throat blackish, similarly sprinkled 

 all over. 



So far as colour is concerned tlie jjrincipal difference from 

 ]^t. cojnore»sis is the darkening of all bright-coloured portions of 

 the fur into cinnamon-rufous, russet, or even vandyck-brown ; but 

 this darkening of the colour is confined to tjie tips of tlie hairs, the 

 concealed (or semi-concealed) bases or subapical portions of the 

 mantle, breast, and belly being ochraceous or ochracecus-buff as in 

 the related species. 



Measurements. On pp. S32-834. 



Type{S ad.) and i)araty[)e8, in the Berlin Museum, six specimens 

 (five skulls), obtained at Fufuni, south coast of Peinba Island, bj- 

 Dr. A. Voltzkow, 17th March, 1903. When these specimens were 

 examined by the writer (1907), five were preserved in alcohol, 

 one skinned from alcohol ; all are aged individuals with the teeth 

 much worn, but nearly all the teeth had dropped from their alveoli, 

 and those of different individuals become mixed together; the 

 measurements of the teetli on p, S34 are therefore taken only from 

 the two British Museum skulls. 



Remarks. — i he discoverj- of a species of Pteropus in the island 

 of Pemba, separated from Jthe coasts of British and German East 

 Africa by a channel only 35 to 40 miles wide, renders the fact 

 difficult to explain that the genus thus far has never been recorded 

 from the continent of Africa. That the Pemba species originated 

 from the Malagasy region (Ft. comorensis or an allied form) is, from 

 its cranialj dental, and external characters, scarcely open to doubt, 

 but the Jiearest Malagasy islands known to be inhabited by the 

 genus are the Comoros and the Seychelles, about 4oO to oUO miles 

 from Pemba. Only one colony ot IHrropus voeltzl-oiui is said to 

 exist in Pemba, at Fiifuni, at the middle of tiie south co."si. 



a. cS rvd. sk. ; no skull. Peinba I. A. r!iim.i"(( Esq. [P.]. 9 10 14.1. 

 b,c. (5 ad.. 5 ad. al. ; Pemba I. A. Gimuiirsr, Ksq. [P.I. lU.S.'.H 1, -'. 



skulls. 



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