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21. Pteropus vitiensis. B. M. 



Fur of back blackish brown, reddish-washed, especially on the 

 sides; crown, nape, and shoulders yellow, redder in the middle portion, 

 forming a broad undefined collar ; throat, chest, and underside dark 

 brown, reddish-washed and pale-grizzled; face and cheeks blackish, 

 grey-grizzled ; underside of head blacker. 



Hab. Viti Islands : island of Ovalau, Eayner. 



See also 



a. Pteropus clirysoproctus, Temm. Mon. ii. p. 67, t. 25. f. 2 



(head), t. 36. f. 7, 8 (skull). Fur of back silky, of underside 

 long and rough ; head, neck, chest, and shoulders bright 

 golden red ; back to the loins blackish chestnut ; loins, rump, 

 and thighs dark chestnut ; orbits and chin chestnut-brown ; 

 arm-bone 6 inches. Hah. Amboina, MacHot. Mus. Leyden. 



b. P. Alecton, Temm. Mon. ii. p. 78 ; Esq. Zool. Guinea, p. 58. 



P. aterrimus, Temm. Consp. deel i. p. 333. [Black ; nape 

 dull bay. ^a6. Minado; Bewdan (not Java) ; Celebes. 



c. P. Pluto, Temm. Esq. p. 58. Fur of underside long, rigid, curled, 



of upper surface smooth and shorter, black, with some scattered 

 yeUow hairs ; nape dark reddish brown ; membrane black ; 

 forearm 8 inches. Hab. Island of Bali and Lombock. 



d. P. vociferus, Peale, U. S. Explor. Exped. p. 19, t. 1, 1848. 



Dark brown ; head, neck, and belly brownish red ; middle of 

 wing grey ; nose elongate, slender. Hab. Mangsi Island. 

 6. P. samoetisis, Peale, U. S. Explor. Exped. p. 20, t. 2. Bay 

 brown ; nape red ; head short and strong, fulvous ; forehead 

 grey ; forearm 5f inches. Hab. Samoi. 



II, Nape like back, shoulders with a spot on each side. 



22. Pteropus Liviagstonii. B. M, 



Uniform deep black above and below, with a few longer white 

 hairs interspersed, especially on the underside, and most abundant 

 on the rump, with a small roundish tuft of yellow hairs on the back 

 over each shoulder ; wings black ; back, shoulders from the base of 

 the forearm, and the legs hairy. 



Pteropus Li\ingstonii, Gray, P. Z. S. 1866. 



Hab. Africa : Johanna Island. 



See Pteropus molossinus, Temm. Esq. p. 62, note. Fur soft, 

 cottony ; head short ; nose blunt ; ears narrow, short ; tuft 

 of unctuous hair on each side of the neck ; hind legs quite 

 naked ; membrane rudimentary ; breast black brown, yel- 

 lowish-washed ; back yellowish brown ; wings black. Ifab. 

 ? Mus. Leyden. 



