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21. Pteropus vitiensis. B. M. 
Fur of back blackish brown, reddish-washed, especially on the 
sides; crown, nape, and shoulders yellow, redder in the middle portion, 
forming a broad undefined collar ; throat, chest, and underside dark 
brown, reddish-washed and pale-grizzled; face and cheeks blackish, 
grey-grizzled; underside of head blacker. 
Hab. Viti Islands: island of Ovalau, Rayner. 
See also 
a. Pteropus chrysoproctus, Temm. Mon. ii. p. 67, t. 25. f. 2 
(head), t. 36. f.7,8 (skull). Fur of back silky, of underside 
long and rough; head, neck, chest, and shoulders bright 
golden red ; back to the loins blackish chestnut ; loins, rump, 
and thighs dark chestnut; orbits and chin chestnut-brown ; 
arm-bone 6 inches. Hab. Amboina, Macklot. Mus. Leyden. 
b. P. Alecton, Temm. Mon. ii. p. 78; Esq. Zool. Guinea, p. 58. 
P. aterrimus, Temm. Consp. deel i. p. 333. ‘Black; nape 
dull bay. Hab. Minado; Bewdan (not Java); Celebes. 
ce. P. Pluto, Temm. Esq. p.58. Fur of underside long, rigid, curled, 
of upper surface smooth and shorter, black, with some scattered 
yellow hairs; nape dark reddish brown; membrane black ; 
forearm 8 inches. Hab. Island of Bali and Lombock. 
d. P. vociferus, Peale, U. S. Explor. Exped. p. 19, t. 1, 1848. 
Dark brown ; head, neck, and belly brownish red; middle of 
wing grey ; nose elongate, slender. Hab. Mangsi Island. 
e. P. samoensis, Peale, U.S. Explor. Exped. p. 20, t.2. Bay 
brown; nape red; head short and strong, fulvous ; forehead 
grey; forearm 52 inches. Hab. Samoi. 
Il. Nape like back, shoulders with a spot on each side. 
22. Pteropus Livingstonii. B. M. 
Uniform deep black above and below, with a few longer white 
hairs interspersed, especially on the underside, and most abundant 
on the rump, with a small roundish tuft of yellow hairs on the back 
over each shoulder ; wings black; back, shoulders from the base of 
the forearm, and the legs hairy. 
Pteropus Livingstonii, Gray, P. Z. S, 1866. 
Hab. Africa: Johanna Island. 
See Pteropus molossinus, Temm. Esq. p. 62, note. Fur soft, 
cottony; head short; nose blunt; ears narrow, short; tuft 
of unctuous hair on each side of the neck; hind legs quite 
naked ; membrane rudimentary ; breast black brown, yel- 
lowish-washed ; back yellowish brown; wings black. Hab. 
? Mus. Leyden. 
