2. PTERorus. * 107 



13. Pteropus caniceps. 13. M. 



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

 spersed hairs, especially on the hinder parts ; head grey, with a few 

 interspersed black hairs ; broad collar round 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. 



Hah. Batchian, Wallace. 



tike P. hypomclas, 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. 



Ilah. Fiji Islands : Nauai, llayner. 



Var. Male, underparts pale reddish brown. Hub. 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 Mack; 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 

 Iho back ; face moderate. 



Uab. Fiji Islands : Moala and Totoya ; Ovalau, liayner. 



1G. Pteropus Geddiei. B. M. 



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

 black. 



Pteropus Geddiei, Macgiilivray, MS. B. M. 



Hob. New Hebrides : Aneiteum, Macgiilivray. 



See also 



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



1824 ; /'. keravdrcnius, Tcmm. Hon. i. p. 186, t. 15. f. 7 

 p. 777 ; /'. marianus, Desm. Marara. p. 347. Hub. Lad rones : 

 Island of Guan. The figure is very like tlio preceding; but 

 there arc several species so coloured. 



b. Pteropus ionyanus, Quoy ck Gaiinard, Astrol, p. 74, t. 8, 1833. 



From Tonga. 



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



