60 PTEBOPODID^. 



finger — metaoarp. 3"-8, 1st ph. 2"-9, 2nd ph. 4" ; fifth finger — 

 metacarp. 3"-9, 1st ph. l"-8, 2nd ph. l"-85 ; tibia 2"-5, foot 2. 

 Hah. Celebes. 



a. S ad. sk. (type). Celebes. Purchased, 



35. Pteropus gouldii. 



Pteropus funereus, Gould (non Temminck), Mammals of Australia, 



iii. pi. 30. 

 Pteropus gouldii, Peters, MB. Akad. Serl. 1867, p. 703. 



Ears long, narrow, and pointed, as in Ft. edulis ; interfemoral 

 membrane very short behind, and concealed by the fur in the 

 middle. 



Eur intensely black, intermixed with a few grepsh or yellowish 

 hairs above and beneath ; the back of the head and neck alone dark 

 ferruginous brown. Some adult males have the neck almost bright 

 yellow ; young males like females. 



The humerus and fleshy part of the forearm are covered with very 

 short thinly spread fur ; the fur occupies a space 3 inches wide 

 across the middle of the back, and the thighs are covered above and 

 beneath ; the wing-membrane, as far as a line drawn from the elbow 

 to the knee, is covered with long black fur, which also extends in a 

 line behind the forearm to the carpus. 



The last upper and lower molars smaller than in Ft. edulis ; teeth 

 otherwise similar to those of that species. 



Length, head and body 9", ear l"-35, forearm 6"-6, thumb 2"-5, 

 second finger 4"-6 ; third finger — metacarp. 4"-4, 1st ph. 3"-3, 2nd ph. 

 5" ; fifth finger — metacarp. 4"-7, 1st ph. 2"-l, 2nd ph. 2" ; tibia 

 3"-2, foot 2"-l. 



Hah. Australia (Cape York, Bet Island, Quail Island, Howick's 

 group, Gould Island, Percy Island). 



This species resembles the dark-coloured varieties of Ft. edulis, 

 but may be at once distinguished by its much smaller size, and espe- 

 cially by the narrowness of the interfemoral membrane in the middle, 

 where its posterior margin is quite concealed by the fur, also by the 

 the thighs being covered above and beneath. 



Mr. Pierson Eamsay, who has lately had an opportunity of exa- 

 mining several well-preserved specimens of this species, remarks * 

 that " the males, as in this sex in Ft. conspicillatus, have the hair on 

 the nape stifi' and unctiious ; the females have not this peculiarity, 

 and the nape-band, instead of being stifle, compressed, and of a greasy 

 feeling, is soft and rather spreading ; it varies from deep yellowish 

 red to very deep blackish tan-red. 



" This species was observed in countless numbers towards dusk 

 flying from the mainland (Cape York) to islands in the straits, and 

 in the early part of the morning, at break of day, they returned on 

 their way to the scrubs. During the month of August many of 



* Proc. Lian. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1877, pt. ii. p. 8. 



