194 Miscellanea. 
accuracy with which all the information connected with them that 
could be obtained has been noted down. The collection of Quad- 
rupeds and Birds only has been placed in my hands for examination, 
with a view to my publishing such novelties as it may contain in 
my works on these subjects; after which the specimens are to be 
sent to the British Museum. The period that has elapsed since the 
arrival of the collection has been far too short to admit of my 
investigating the subject as I could wish; I shall therefore, on the 
present occasion, exhibit some of the species that appear to me to 
be new, and defer my remarks upon the entire collection to the next 
or some future meeting of the Society. 
I shall now proceed to describe two species of mammalia and two 
species of birds from this collection, as follows :-— 
PTEROPUS CONSPICILLATUS, Gould. 
Sp. Ch.—Crown of the head black, slightly grizzled with buff; 
round each eye a large oval patch of deep brownish buff, which 
advances on the sides of the face and shows very conspicuously ; at 
the nape a broad crescent-shaped band of deep sandy buff, which 
extends down the sides of the neck and nearly meets on the breast; 
centre of the back glossy black, slightly grizzled with grey ; cheeks, 
chin, all the under surface and rump, black, slightly grizzled with 
buff; ears and wing-membranes naked and of a deep purplish black ; 
claws black. 
Hab. Fitzroy Island. 
This species is about the size of Pteropus poliocephalus, but has a 
somewhat larger head and much larger and more powerful teeth, 
and is moreover rendered conspicuously different from that species 
by the nuchal band being of a deep sandy buff instead of deep-rust 
red, and not continuous round the neck; by the crown of the head 
and back being almost jet-black ; and the eyes being conspicuously 
encircled with deep buff (whence the specific name) ; in which latter 
character it assimilates to P. funereus, but scarcely to any other. 
Respecting this species Mr. MacGillivray writes: “Is this not new 
to Australia? It is not funereus, of which see skull No. 7 and skin 
No. 8, nor is it poltocephalus. Of its habits I extract the following 
note from my journal: ‘On the wooden slope of a hill on Fitzroy 
Island I one day fell in with this bat in prodigious numbers, looking 
while flying along the bright sunshine (so unusual for a nocturnal 
animal) like a large flock of rooks: on close approach a strong 
musky odour became apparent, and a loud incessant chattering was 
heard; many of the branches were bending under their load of bats, 
some in a state of inactivity suspended by their hind claws, others 
scrambling along among the boughs and taking to wing when dis- 
turbed. Ina very short time I procured as many specimens as I 
wished, three and four at a shot, for they hung in clusters, but unless 
killed outright they remained suspended for some time: when 
wounded they are handled with difficulty, as they bite severely, 
and on such occasions their cry reminds one of the squalling of a 
child.’ ” 
PuHaALaNGtsTa (PSEUDOCHEIRUS) NUDICAUDATA, Gould. 
Sp. Ch.—Head, all the upper surface, the sides of the body, and 
the outer sides of the limbs, brownish gray; the tips of the hairs 
with a silky appearance ; under surface of the neck and body and 
