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13. Pteropus caniceps. B. M. 



Fur of back blackish grey from the abundance of grey inter- 

 spersed hairs, especially on the hinder parts ; head gi'ey,.with a few 

 interspersed black hairs ; broad collar roiind neck, and over sides of 

 the chest and shoulders, reddish grey ; middle of throat and below 

 silver grey ; thighs and forearms with a few silvery hairs on the 

 lower half. 



Huh. Batchian, Wallace. 



Like P. hijpomeJas, but back black. 



14. Pteropus nawaiensis. B. M. 



Fur of back soft, adpressed, blackish grey ; head, nape, and upper 

 part of shoulders yellow-white, the middle part rather redder, form- 

 ing a badly-defined half collar ; cheeks dark grey ; chin, throat, 

 chest, and underpart of the body blackish ; crown with interspersed 

 longer, slender, yellow and greyish hairs ; thighs and legs hairy. 



Hab. Fiji Islands : Nauai, Rayner. 



Var. Male, underparts pale reddish brown. Hah. Viti Islands : 

 Ovalau, Rayner. 



Skull. — Length 2 inches 4 lines ; nose from orbit 10| lines, 

 slender ; orbits incomplete ; upper hinder grinder oblong ; lower 

 smaller, circular ; lower false grinder moderate, upper wanting. 



15. Pteropus flavicollis. B. M. 



Brownish black ; head and throat blackish ; crown, nape, and 

 sides of throat yellow ; upper and forearm and legs naked above ; fur 

 soft, moderately long ; wings attached far back, near the middle of 

 the back ; face moderate. 



Hab. Fiji Islands : Moala and Totoya ; Ovalau, Rayner. 



16. Pteropus Geddiei. B.M, 



Fur black ; head to the ears black ; nape reddish yellow ; throat 

 black. 



Pteropus Geddiei, Macgillivray , MS. B. M. 



Hab, New Hebrides : Aneiteum, Macgillivray. 



See also 



a. Pteropus Jceraudren, Quoy & Gaim. Voy. Uran. i. p. 51, t. 3, 



1824 ; P. l-erandretiius, Temm. Mon. i. p. 186, t. 15. f. 7, 

 p. 777 ; P. mariamis, Desm. ilamm. p. 347. Hab. Ladrones : 

 Island of Guan. The figure is vciy like the preceding; but 

 there are several species so coloured. 



b. Pteropus tonganus, Quoy it Gaimard, Astrol, p. 74, t. 8, 1833. 



From Tonga. 



c. Pteropus vanicorensis, Quoy & Gaimard (Voy. Astrol. p. 74 



