Mammals Collected by Dr. W. L. Abbott on the Natuna Islands / Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences, Vol. III, pp. 111-138

by Gerrit S. Miller

Five specimens (three skins) from Sirhassen. These agree so closely with a skin and two bleached alcoholic specimens from Singapore, which I suppose to be the same as the Malaccan Cynopterus montanoi, that without more material it is impossible to distinguish the Natuna animal from that of the southern extremity of the Malay Peninsula. Cynopterus montanoi as thus understood differs from C. angulatus Miller[30] of Lower Siam in its more slender skull and in the absence of the white border of the ear, and from C. titthæcheilus (Temminck) of Sumatra and Java in its conspicuously smaller size.

PTEROPUS VAMPYRUS (Linnæus).

1894. Pteropus vampyrus Thomas and Hartert, Novitates Zoologicæ, I, p. 655. September, 1894 (Bunguran).

1895. Pteropus vampyrus Thomas and Hartert, Novitates Zoologicæ, II, p. 489. December, 1895 (Bunguran).

Six skins from Bunguran.

? PTEROPUS HYPOMELANUS Temminck.

1894. Pteropus hypomelanus Thomas and Hartert, Novitates Zoologicæ, I, p. 655. September, 1894 (Sirhassen).

1895. Pteropus hypomelanus Thomas and Hartert, Novitates Zoologicæ, II, p. 489. December, 1895 (Pulo Pandak, Pulo Panjang and Pulo Laut).

Eight (one in alcohol) from Sirhassen and seven (one in alcohol) Pulo Laut. It is highly probable that these specimens represent a species distinct from the true Pteropus hypomelanus of Ternate.

NYCTICEBUS TARDIGRADUS (Linnæus).

1894. Nycticebus tardigradus Thomas and Hartert, Novitates Zoologicæ, I, p. 655. September, 1894 (Bunguran).

1895. Nycticebus tardigradus Thomas and Hartert, Novitates Zoologicæ, II, p. 489 (Bunguran).