2. PTEROPUS. 107° 
13. Pteropus caniceps. B.M. 
Fur of back blackish grey from the abundance of grey inter- 
spersed hairs, especially on the hinder parts; head grey, with a few 
interspersed black hairs; broad collar round neck, and over sides of 
the chest and shoulders, reddish grey ; middle of throat and below 
silver grey; thighs and forearms with a few silvery hairs on the 
lower half. 
Hab. Batchian, Wallace. 
Like P. hypomelas, but back black. 
14. Pteropus nawaiensis. B.M. 
Far of back soft, adpressed, blackish grey; head, nape, and upper 
part of shoulders yellow-white, the middle part rather redder, form- 
ing a badly-defined half collar; cheeks dark grey; chin, throat, 
chest, and underpart of the body blackish ; crown with interspersed 
longer, slender, yellow and greyish hairs; thighs and legs hairy. 
Hab. Fiji Islands: Nauai, Rayner. 
Var. Male, underparts pale reddish brown. Hab. Viti Islands: 
Ovalau, Rayner. 
Skull.—Length 2 inches 4 lines; nose from orbit 104 lines, 
slender ; orbits incomplete; upper hinder grinder oblong; lower 
smaller, circular; lower false grinder moderate, upper wanting. 
15. Pteropus flavicollis. B. M. 
Brownish black; head and throat blackish; crown, nape, and 
sides of throat yellow ; upper and forearm and legs naked above ; fur 
soft, moderately long; wings attached far back, near the middle of 
the back ; face moderate. 
Hab. Fiji Islands: Moala and Totoya; Ovalau, Rayner. 
16. Pteropus Geddiei. B.M. 
Fur black; head to the ears black ; nape reddish yellow ; throat 
black. 
Pteropus Geddiei, Macgillivray, MS. B.M. 
Hab. New Hebrides: Aneiteum, Macgillivray. 
~ See also 
a. Pteropus keraudren, Quoy & Gaim. Voy. Uran. i. p. 51, t. 3, 
1824 ; P. keraudrenius, Temm. Mon. i. p. 186, t. 15. f. 7, 
p.777; P. marianus, Desm. Mamm. p. 347. Hab. Ladrones: 
Island of Guan. The figure is very like the preceding; but 
there are several species so coloured. 
b. Pteropus tonganus, Quoy & Gaimard, Astrol, p. 74, t. 8, 1833. 
From Tonga. 
ce. Pteropus vanicorensis, Quoy & Gaimard (Voy. Astrol. p. 74, 
