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you may make such use as you wisli of the speeiniens sent, and ii'luni tlicm 

 to the Bureau of Science at your convenience. 



During the summer of 1908 I communicated with Professor J. B. 

 Steere, of Ann Arbor, Michigan, whose worlv as a naturalist in the Philip- 

 pines many years ago is well known. In his coiirteous reply Professor 

 Steere wrote me that he had collected the skeleton of a specimen of 

 Galeopitliccus (adult), which he had preserved in the rough; he also had 

 the young, consisting of two fcetuses in spirits. He later on donated the 

 skeleton for my use, but was unable to find the preserved specimens of 

 the young which would have been very valuable additions to my material. 

 The letter he wrote me was interesting, but I have been unable to put 

 my hand on it for some time past, and so recently wrote him again for 

 data, but upon this occasion no reply has been received. In any event 

 I remember Professor Steere wrote me that he collected the skeleton 

 about twenty years ago (1887-88?), but upon which island he had for- 

 gotten, and he had no other data, and there was no label on the specimen, 

 so the sex of the individual is likewise unlcnown. It has been carefully 

 cleaned by me for description in the present connection. Without doubt 

 it was a larger form than the ones from which Mr. McGregor obtained 

 his skeletons, and it leads me to believe that the Steere specimen belonged 

 to a different species. Mr. McGregor in his letter, given above, does not 

 specifically diagnose the two specimens he sent, so that there is some doubt 

 as to whether I really have the skeleton of a true "G. philippinensis" at 

 hand, although the material admits of obtaining the characters of the 

 skeleton at least in so far as the genus is concerned. 



The McGregor specimens show niunerous shot holes in the skulls, and 

 these have given rise to considerable mutilation. This is not tlie case 

 with the larger skeleton from Steere. It is possible that the examples 

 from McGregor maj' not be fully adult, a suspicion which is borne out 

 by an examination of the long bones where the epiphysial sutures do not, 

 as yet, seem to have entirely disappeared. Still there are differences to 

 be observed ; and while the two McGregor specimens seem to be repre- 

 sentatives of the same species, exhibiting only certain individual varia- 

 tions in the skull upon comparison, the skull of the one from Steere, 

 which is fully adult, although possessing the same general characters, 

 has the superficial appearance of having belonged to some other species 

 of the genus. 



The "hyoidean apparatus" is missing in the case of all three of these 

 skeletons ; all the skeletal ungual joints of manus and pes, so peculiar in 

 their morphology, have probably been retained upon the skins in the 

 case of the specimens from the Bureau of Science, while they are present 

 upon the toes of the skeleton from Steere, and consecjuently their general 

 characters can be given here. 



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