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MAMMALOGY. 



specimens at our request, and for which we beg leave to express our 

 deep sense of obligation. Mr. Gould's specimens enabled us to fully 

 determine the distinct character of the present species as above 

 described. 



CRANIUM OF P. S A MO ENS IS. 



2. Pteropus keraudrenius, Quoy and Gaimard. 



Pli'vopuH keraudren, QuoY and GrAiM. Voy. Uranie, Mamtn. p. 51 (1824) ; Voy. 

 Uranie, Atlas, Zool. PL 3. 



There is in the collection of the Expedition a single specimen which 

 appears to be this species, though it is lighter in color than is repre- 

 sented in the plate of Quoy and Gaimard above cited, and there is a 

 mixture of gray in the pilage of the head not mentioned in their descrip- 

 tion. We have, however, no doubt of its identity, and have, conse- 

 quently, given it the present name without hesitation. It was 

 obtained in the Feejee Islands. 



Of this species, Mr. Peale observes : 



" We found a species of bat very common at the Feejee Islands, 

 v/hich agrees with the descriptions above quoted ; — the native name 

 is ' Beka,' which is also the name of a closely allied species inhabiting 

 the Island of Tongatabu. 



" In habits and strong odor, nearly all the species of this genus are 

 alike. Any of them may be discovered by the odor emitted as they 

 hang pendant from the high branches of the trees in humid forests, 

 this included, although it is not thought to be so disagreeably strong 

 as that of the Island of Tongatabu." 



3. Pteropus macklotii, Temminck. 



Pteropus macMotii, Temm. Mon. Mamm. II, p. 69, PI. XXXV, fig. 5, head (1835 to 

 1811). 



