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Journals Of Two Expeditions Of Discovery In North-West And Western Australia, Vol. 2 (of 2)

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rather larger fore-arm bone, 1 7-12; shin bone, 17-24.
Number 6.

Scotophilus pumilus, Gray.
Grey brown, base of the fur blackish, beneath paler; cheeks blackish; ears small, rather thin, longer than the fur; tragus elongate, half as long as the ears, rounded at the end; wings nearly bald, except near the arm-pit; interfemoral membrane hairy at the base; heel-bone elongate, two-thirds the length of the margin of the interfemoral membrane.

Head and body, 1 2-12; tail 11-12; fore-arm bone, 1 2-12.
This species, Mr.Gould notes, flies quick and low over water.
Number 7.

Molossus australis.

See Gray, Magazine of Zoology and Botany volume 2 501.
Number 15.


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