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PTEROPUS. 17 
1, SoraLiA GADAMU, Owen, sp. (1865). 
Beak rather short, equal in length to the distance between its 
base and the eyes; its apex obtuse. Lower jaw a little longer 
than the upper. Blow-hole crescentic, situated on the middle of 
the vertex between the eyes. Dorsal and pectoral fins falcate, 
of nearly equal size. Body above dark plumbeous gray, almost 
black on the fins; below pinkish ashy-gray with a few small 
irregular blotches of light plumbeous gray. : 
ee 3—2 
Dentition.—-— = 96 — 108. 
Dimensions.—Total length about seven feet. 
Habitat.—Indian and West Australian Seas. 
Reference.—Owen, Tr. Z.S. vi. p. 17, pl. ii. figs. 1 and 2. 
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Order III.—-CHIROPTERA. 
Mammals with the fore limbs specially modified so as to adapt 
them for flight. The fore arm consists of a rudimentary ulna, a 
long curved radius, and a carpus of six bones, which supports a 
thumb and four greatly elongated fingers, between which, the sides 
of the body, and the hinder extremities the wing-membrane is 
spread out. A peculiar elongated cartilaginous process, the cal- 
caneum, which is rarely rudimentary or absent, rises from the 
inner side of the ankle-joint, is directed inwards, and supports the 
interfemoral membrane. Mamme thoracic. 
Suborder I -Megachiroptera. 
Crowns of molar teeth smooth with a longitudinal furrow. 
Bony palate narrowing slowly backwards, continued behind last 
molar. Second finger generally terminating in a claw. Sides of 
ear-conch forming a complete ring at the base. Pyloric extremity 
of the stomach elongated. 
Habits.—Frugivorous ; mellivorous ; anthophagous. 
Family 1.—PTEROPODIDAA. 
Flying Foxes; Fruit-eating Bats. 
Characters similar to those of the Suborder. 
Genus L—PTEROPUS, Brisson (1756). 
Size large or medium. Muzzle long, narrow, and cylindrical. 
Nostrils projecting by their inner margins, the extremity of the 
muzzle deeply emarginate between them. Tongue of moderate 
length. Upper lip with a vertical groove in front, bounded 
laterally by rounded naked ridges. ars variable in size. Index 
finger with a distinct claw. Metacarpal bone of middle finger 
