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The fur ib of a very soft woolly texture, and of a uniform reddish 

 mouse colour over every part, only rather lighter on the sides of the 

 neck and belly than on the superior surface of the body. The wings are 

 ample, naked except upon the thighs and arms, and of a light brown 

 colour ; there is no real interfemoral membrane ; but the whole pos- 

 terior face of the thighs and body is margined with a narrow band of 

 integument about half an inch broad, and covered above with the 

 same description of hair as the back. The ears are small, naked, 

 erect and elHptical, and the eyes placed much nearer to them, and 

 consequently at a greater comparative distance from the muzzle, than 

 in the ordinary Pteropi. 



Pteropus macrocephalus . The whole length of this species is 

 barely 6 inches, the length of the head 2 inches, and the expanse 

 of the wings about 1 foot 3 inches. The colour, form and appear- 

 ance are much the same as in the last species, but the Pter. macro- 

 cephalus is at once distinguished by the gi'eat size of the head, as well 

 as by the colour of the flying membranes which are very dark brown, 

 nearly approaching to black. The canine teeth also, as well as the 

 head, are of much larger size, and the interfemoral margin is nar- 

 rower. Dr. Horsfield, from the great length of the head, thinks that 

 this species may approximate to the Macroglossus of M. F. Cuvier, 

 the Pter. rostratus of his own ' Zoological Researches in Java.' 

 It is to be observed, however, that it differs in dentition from that 

 animal, as well as from all other Pteropi hitherto described ; and, 

 with the Pter. Gamhianus, may furnish the type of a new genus to 

 those who regard such modifications as amounting to generic cha- 

 racters. Mr. Kendall's collection contains numerous specimens of 

 both the species here described. 



The only other Cheiropter brought home by Mr. Kendall is the 

 Mcgaderma Frons of Geoffrey, well described by Daubenton ; to whose 

 account I shall only add, that the wings are of a deep orange colour, 

 and the fur unusually long and soft. 



Genus Herpestes, ///. 



Mr. Kendall has brought over specimens of two Herpestes, one of 

 which, the Herpestes Mongos of Linnseus, very well figured and de- 

 scribed by Buffon (Hist. Nat., tom. xiii. tab. 19.), deserves to be 

 noticed, for the purpose of correcting the habitat of the species, 

 which, upon Buffon's authority, has hitherto been given as India, but 

 which Mr. Kendall's specimens clearly show to be the west coast 

 of Africa. The mistake originally arose from Buffon's having iden- 

 tified the Mangouste a bundcs, the species at present under considera- 

 tion, with the Mongos of Kfempfer, unquestionably an Indian s])e- 

 cies (the Herpestes griseus of authors), and still commonly called 

 by that name in Upper India, where many natives and Europeans 

 keep it in a semidomestic state, for the purpose of destroying vermin. 

 Under these circumstances, though there are few cases in which 



