TEE CLOAKED FRUIT BAT. 
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only two incisor teeth in the upper jaw, and none in the lower, while the upper jaw has only four and 
the lower one six molars. This Bat, the Molucca Bat of Pennant and Shaw, inhabits the islands of 
Celebes and Amboyna. It is nearly four inches in length, and has an expanse of wing of about 
fourteen inches. 
Mr. Dobson has quite recently described a second species of Harpy from Duke of York 
Island, near New Guinea, which may be called the Greater Harpy Bat ( ' Ilarpyia major). It is much 
THE hammer - HEADED BAT. {Three-fourths natural size.) 
From the Proceedings of the Zoological Society, 1870. 
larger than the above species, and is especially remarkable for the great length of the nasal tubes. 
The general colour of the fur is pale buff. 
THE CLOAKED FRUIT BAT.* 
This is another very curious Bat which inhabits Amboyna, but is also met with in Timor 
and Banda. It differs from all the preceding forme by wanting the claw at the extremity of the 
first finger, and is further remarkable by having the wing-membranes springing from the middle line of 
the back, so as to form a complete mantle for the animal. In the form of the head, this Bat resembles 
the true Pteropi, but the dentition approaches that of Harpyia , the incisors being usually two in each 
jaw, and the lower ones sometimes deficient, and the molars four and six in the upper and lower jaws 
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* Cephalotes Peronii. 
