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at a distance of several miles from the nearest water, the third near 
the course of the Dinder then largely dried up. This last speeimen is 
appreciably darker in color, less brown, than the two from the Blue 
Nile. The type locality is Sennar Province on the White Nile. 
EPOMOPHORUS LABIATUS (Temminck). 
Large-lipped Fruit Bat. 
Pteropus labiatus Temminck, Monogr. mammalogie, 1835-41, 2, p. 83, pl. 39, 
fig. 1-3. 
At Fazogli on the Blue Nile, and at Um Orug on the upper Dinder 
River, fruit bats came nightly to feed on the berry-like fruit of a 
large fig tree with thick green leaves that grew by the river’s brink. 
Numbers of them were visible in the moonlight darting about, hovering 
momentarily to feed, or apparently alighting here and there in order 
to obtain the berries. A curious hoarse squeak was frequently uttered 
as they flew about. Of three specimens secured, one female proves to 
be of this species. Wroughton has also recorded a specimen taken at 
Gebel Maba, 25 miles south of Roseires, and Andersen notes two 
males from Roseires in the British Museum. According to this 
author (1912, p. 531) Sennar is the type locality, not “ Abyssinia” as 
given by Temminck. 
EPOMOPHORUS ANURUS Heuglin. 
Heuglin’s Fruit Bat. 
Epomophorus anurus Heuglin, Nova acta Acad. Leop. Carol., 1864, 31, art. 7, 
p. 12. 
An adult male and a female were taken at Fazogli. Andersen (1912) 
shows that in this species the males are much larger than the females, 
whereas in EF. labiatus there is practically no such disparity between 
the sexes. The females of the two species however, in their extremes, 
closely approach each other. This author gives the range as from 
Erythrea and Abyssinia to British and German East Africa, Uganda 
and Bahr-el-Ghazal. Its occurrence in eastern Sennar is therefore 
of interest, and perhaps not unexpected. 
An immature specimen of the Egyptian Rousette Bat (Eidolon 
heluum) without skull, is recorded by Wroughton (1911, p. 458) as 
sent to the British Museum from Roseires, by Mr. A. L. Butler. We 
did not meet with the species. 
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