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Eovycteris major, sp. n. 



Distinguished from E. spelosa by its considerably larger 

 size, and different colour of the fur. Measurements of type, 

 an adult female (in parentheses those of eight adult females 

 of E. spelaia ; females of the genus Eonycteris, it should be 

 noted, average noticeably smaller than males) : Forearm 

 79-5 mm. (61'5-70-5), third metacarpal 54 (42*5-49'5), 

 mandible from condyle 30*5 (25-27'5), c-m 2 , crowns 13'8 

 (12-13"2). Back approximately Vandyck-brown, underparts 

 paler, nearly cafe-au-lait. Hab. Borneo. 



Type. $ ad. (skin and skull), Mt. Dulit, N. Borneo, 

 2000', Sept. 1896, collected by Dr. Oh. Hose, B.M. 8. 1. 27. 28. 



Remarks. — E. spelaia ranges from Burma and Siam south 

 to Sumatra and Java. In Borneo it is apparently replaced 

 by E. major, in Celebes by E. rosenbergi. The latter species 

 has hitherto, without sufficient reason, been placed in a 

 distinct genus, Callinycteris. 



BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



Memoirs of the National Museum of Melbourne, No. 3. 

 Published by Order of the Trustees. 1910. 



In this memoir, the joint work of Prof. Baldwin Spencer and 

 Mr. J. A. Kershaw, a most interesting collection of subfossil bird 

 and marsupial remains, from King Island, Bass Strait, is described. 



The bird-remains referred to are those of a new species allied to 

 the dwarf emu of Kangaroo Island (Dromceus peroni), for which 

 the authors propose the name D. minor. A considerable number of 

 bones, in a more or less fragmentary and friable condition, have been 

 obtained, and these seem to show that while the King Island bird 

 was considerably smaller than the existing emu (D. novce-hollandiai), 

 it was larger than the black emu of Kangaroo Island. The skulls 

 obtained were unfortunately in a very imperfect condition. 



Owing, no doubt, to the fact that the authors are perforce obliged 

 to carry on their work out of the reach of large libraries, they have 

 had to obtain such facts as they could in regard to the Kangaroo 

 Island emu from indirect sources. Thus they make but a passing 

 and casual reference to the skeleton of this bird in the Florence 

 Museum, and are apparently unaware that it was described at some 

 length in the Trans. Zool. Soc. vol. xv. part 5 (1900). 



" One very striking fact," remark the authors, " in regard to the 

 Ratitse is that on insular areas we find a most remarkable develop- 

 ment of distinct species, and that on continental areas there is a 

 widespread distribution of a limited number of species. 



