220 P. Stoliczka — Mammals and Birds inhabiting Kachh. [No. 3, 



MAMMALIA* 

 Primates. 



I have only on a single occasion seen a Presbytes which appeared to be 

 in a wild state. It came towards the evening to drink at a tank some dis- 

 tance from the fort Kanmir (in the sonth-eastern part of the Wagur district), 

 and as its entire face was jet black, I presume, it was more likely P. pria- 

 mus than the Bengal P. entellus, but I could not approach sufficiently near 

 to ensure the identification. 



Besides that, I saw both Imms rhesus and Macacus radiatus in capti- 

 vit} 7 , but they appear to have been imported. 



Chiroptera. 



The notes on this order have been kindly communicated to me 

 by G. E. Dobson, Esq., B. A., M. B. 



Fam. EnrN T OLOPHH>J3. 

 Phtlloehesta ftjlva, Gray. 



Of the specimens of this species obtained, two, a male and female, were 

 taken at the same time and place. The fur of the female specimen is bright 

 golden yellow, that of the male white at the base of the hairs for more than 

 three-foui*ths their length, the remaining portion to the tip dark purplish 

 brown. The male is larger than the female which is apparently not quite 

 adult. 



This proves the identity of Ph. fitlva with Ph. murina and Ph. cinera- 

 ceus, and leads to the belief that Ph. ater and atratus are also synonyms of 

 the same species. This remarkable variableness of the colour of the fur is 

 not, however, confined to this species, it is met with also in other Bhinolo- 

 phine bats ; in Ph. larvata, Horsfd., for example, where the colour of the fur 

 varies from bright orange . fulvous, with brownish or ferruginous tips, to 

 bluish black with black tips, a circumstance which has given rise also to 

 much confusion, as the species has received as many names as the different 

 colours of its fur. The same remarks apply to the species of other families 

 of Chiroptera, notably to the Ptekopid^i. 



Other male and female specimens of this species were also obtained about 

 the same time, the fur of all presents the same colour : — white with dusky 

 tips to the hairs. This shows that the colour of the fur in Ph. fulva 

 does not depend on locality, or season. The smaller size of the fulvous 

 female specimen referred to above, taken with its less perfectly developed 



* The systematic names and further observations on the species recorded will be 

 found in Jerdon's ' Mammals of India,' except in a few cases where a special reference 

 or a description, is added. 



