RHINOLOPHUS? CERVINUS, Gould. 
Fawn-coloured Bat. 
I have figured this species as a Rhinolophus with a mark of doubt, being somewhat uncertain as to whether 
I am correct in placing it in that genus ; probably it ought to have been assigned to that of Phyllorhina. 
Mr. MacGillivray, to whom we are indebted for its discovery, was inclined to think it identical with Rhino- 
lophus aurantius, but upon comparing it with that species, I am convinced it is distinct ; I have therefore 
assigned it a specific appellation, and have selected that of cervinus, in reference to the colouring of 
the fur. The following notes respecting the animal were communicated to me by Mr. MacGillivray, and 
as they were made at the time he procured the specimens from which my figures are taken, it will be well 
perhaps to give them in his own words : — 
“ Dentition : incisors jp-g ; canines ; false molars W ; true molars = 30. 
“Length: body, exclusive of the tail, 2 inches; fore-arm, 1*7; hind-arm, 0*7 ; tail, 1; ears, 0*5 long, 
0*45 wide ; extent of wings, 1 1 inches. 
“ Colour : above tawny brown, darkest on the face, head and shoulders ; below paler, and tinged on the 
belly with grey. 
“ Nose-leaf simple, long, straight-edged, 0*25 across. 
“ Ears : connected by a hairy fold of skin, large, broadly ovate, pointed ; posterior margin slightly sinuated 
near the tip, then rounded ; internally with anterior one-third thickly clothed with hair ; tragus 
obsolete, being indicated merely by a slight internal fold of the auricle. 
“ Wings naked ; index one-jointed, the others three-jointed. 
“ Tail continued 01 beyond the intra-femoral membrane. 
“ Incisors : above very minute ; below larger and three-lobed. 
“ Canines : strong, booked, sharp, the upper ones the largest. 
“ False molars : above, first very minute, second large and pointed ; below, simple, pointed, the second the 
largest. 
“ True molars : first and second in each jaw with five, and the third with four sharp points. 
“ Habitat: Cape York ; also in the sandstone caves on Albany Island, where it occurs in great numbers. 
The two species do not associate together. Procured October 1848.” 
The figures are of the natural size. 
