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I. The nape and bach of the neck yellow or red, forming a bright tippet. 

 * Orbits paler , forming rings round the eye. 



1. Pteropus conspicillatus. TJie Spectacled Kahmg. B. M. 



Black ; orbits brown ; uapo and back of nock red yellow ; hairy part 

 of back rather narrow; upper arms and thighs rather hairy ; rest of 

 limbs bald ; forearm-bone G^ inches. 



Pteropus conspicillatus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1849, p. 109 ! Mamm. Austr. 

 iii. t. 29 ! 



Hab. East coast of Australia : Fitzroy Island. (Malay Islands, 

 Temm.) 



Var. Underside silvered, with the white tips to the hairs ; face 

 browner. Hab. East coast of Australia, Capt. Stanley. B. M. 



Skull large (end imperfect), about 2f inches in length, 1 inch 

 7 lines wide; hinder grinders small, roundish, lower smallest ; false 

 grinders circular, upper wanting ; upper cutting-teeth subequal. 



** Orbits like back. Large-sized Bats. 



2. Pteropus Edwardsii. The African Kalong. B. M. 



Fur soft, nearly uniform ; back and legs black ; head, neck, and 

 upper part of back orange ; face and throat blackish ; underside red- 

 dish yellow ; sides of body and vent blackish-varied; back, thighs, 

 and lower half of forearms hairy, wings very hairy beneath, near 

 elbow. 



Great Madagascar Bat, JMio. Birds, iv. t. 180. Pteropus Edwardsii, 



part., Geoff. Ann. Mm. xv. p. 92 ; Temm. Monog. ii. p. 01 ; Peters, 

 Mossamb. i. p. 23. 



Hab. Africa : Shoa ; Mohilla Islands ; Comoro group, Kirk ; Jo- 

 hanna Island, Livingstone. 



The skull elongate ; the false grinders in the upper jaw very small, 

 lower larger ; the front grinder in each jaw very high, conical ; the 

 canines very long, slender. 



M. Temminck says that the specimens from Calcutta, Pondichcrry, 

 and Ceylon do not differ from those from Madagascar (Mon. ii. p. 02) ; 

 but I behove that they arc distinct species. 



3. Pteropus medius. The Wurhagool. B. M. 



Blackish brown ; nape and back of neck yellow ; head, throat, 

 chest, and abdomen darker, red or blackish brown. 



Pteropus Edwardsii, part., Geoff. Ann. MttS. xv. p. 92 ; Temm. Monog. 

 ii. p. 61. P. medius, Temm. Monog. i. p. 170. P. leucoceplialus, 

 Hodgs. Journ. As. Soc. Benq. iv. p. 700 ! P. edulis, W. Elliot. 

 P. Edwardsii, Waterhouse, P. Z. S. 184.°., p. 07 ! Kelaart, Prod. 

 27 ! P. assamensis, M'Clclland, P. Z. S. vii. p. 148 ! P. rubricollis, 

 M'C/cl/and. 



