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the other fingers have only two phalanges. The 

 nose is simple, the ears small, and without parotides, 

 and the tongue furnished with prickles, bent back- 

 wards. The stomach is a sack considerably elon- 

 gated and unequally inflated. 



1. Roussettes without tails, with four incisors in each jaw. 



The Black Roussette, (Pterop. edulis, Geoff.) 



Of a brownish black, deeper in the under parts. 

 Near four feet from the extremity of one wing 

 to that of the other. An inhabitant of the Sunda 

 and Molucca islands, where these animals con- 

 ceal themselves in caverns. The flesh is re- 

 markably delicate. 



The Roussette of Edwards, (Pter. Edwardsii, Geoff.) 



Fawn-colour, with the back of a deep brown. 

 Habitat, Madagascar. 



The Roussette of Buff on, (Pterop. vulgaris, Geoff.) 

 Buff. X. xiv. 



Brown, the face and sides of the back fawn- 

 coloured. From the Isles of France and Bour- 

 bon, where they inhabit the trees in the forests. 



The Collared Roussette. Rougette of Buffon. (Pter.rubri- 

 collis, Geoff.) Buff. X. xvn. 



Grayish brown, the neck red. From the same 

 isles, where it lives in the hollow trees. 



