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11.
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<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF9A844FC30F8FE8F4EF80A" ID-CoL="4S99K" ID-ENA="89398" authority="Temm." authorityName="Temm." box="[915,2150,1859,1954]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="18" pageNumber="93" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rouxi">Rhinolophus rouxi Temm.</taxonomicName>
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<paragraph id="8BD236FBFFF9A844F77AF8FE8AB8F80A" blockId="18.[731,3472,1858,1967]" box="[2265,3472,1859,1954]" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">
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(Plate
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<heading id="D09A8197FFF9A844F5A4F8FE8D84F80A" allCaps="true" box="[2567,2732,1859,1954]" fontSize="63" level="13" pageId="18" pageNumber="93" reason="3">III.</heading>
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fig. 9
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<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF9A844F47CF8FE8AB8F80A" box="[3039,3472,1859,1954]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">a, b, c, d.)</emphasis>
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="C3776570FFF9A844FD78F8708161F6A8" pageId="18" pageNumber="93" type="diagnosis">
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<paragraph id="8BD236FBFFF9A844FD78F8708161F6A8" blockId="18.[619,3583,1996,5957]" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">
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<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF9A844FD78F87083B6F784" box="[731,1182,1997,2092]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">Diagnosis.</emphasis>
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Allied to
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<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF9A844F902F8708E03F784" box="[1697,2347,1997,2092]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">
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<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF9A844F902F8708E34F784" box="[1697,2332,1997,2092]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="18" pageNumber="93" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="borneensis">Rh. borneensis</taxonomicName>
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,
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</emphasis>
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but larger, and with considerably longer metacarpals. Third metacarpal 34-38 mm. Forearm 46-51'5 mm.
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</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="C3776570FFF9A845FD78F6B08B59ED6C" lastPageId="19" lastPageNumber="94" pageId="18" pageNumber="93" type="description">
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<paragraph id="8BD236FBFFF9A844FD78F6B082F7F42A" blockId="18.[619,3583,1996,5957]" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">
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<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF9A844FD78F6B08308F6C4" box="[731,1056,2317,2412]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">Details.</emphasis>
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This is a large, continental representative of the
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<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF9A844FDCCF6C48303F670" box="[623,1067,2425,2520]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">borneensis</emphasis>
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type, characterised chiefly by the much longer metacarpals and the shape of the lancet. In general size, the continental
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<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF9A844FB00F5F28140F506" authorityName="Temm." box="[1187,1640,2639,2734]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="18" pageNumber="100" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rouxi">
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<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF9A844FB00F5F28140F506" box="[1187,1640,2639,2734]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">Rh. rouXi</emphasis>
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bears the same relation to the insular
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<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF9A844FDD2F50683DEF4B2" box="[625,1270,2747,2842]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="18" pageNumber="93" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="borneensis">
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<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF9A844FDD2F50683DEF4B2" box="[625,1270,2747,2842]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">Rh. borneensis</emphasis>
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as the continental
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<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF9A844F714F5068CB4F4B2" box="[2231,2972,2747,2842]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="18" pageNumber="93" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="megaphyllus">
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<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF9A844F714F5068CB4F4B2" box="[2231,2972,2747,2842]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">Rh. megaphyllus</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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does to the insular
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<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF9A844FC6AF49E82F7F42A" box="[969,1503,2851,2946]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">
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<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF9A844FC6AF49E82FBF42A" authorityName="Andersen" authorityYear="1905" box="[969,1491,2851,2946]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="18" pageNumber="80" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="simplex">Rh. simpleX</taxonomicName>
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.
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</emphasis>
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BD236FBFFF9A844FD78F42C8191EF2E" blockId="18.[619,3583,1996,5957]" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">
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The sella is practically parallel-margined from base to summit; not rarely some faint indication of a constriction at the middle can be traced; summit broadly rounded off. In
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<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF9A844F492F3D88B54F36C" authorityName="Andersen" authorityYear="1905" box="[2865,3196,3173,3268]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="18" pageNumber="135" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="simplex">
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<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF9A844F492F3D88B54F36C" box="[2865,3196,3173,3268]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">simpleX</emphasis>
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and its closest allies the lancet is long and quite (or almost) cuneate; in
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<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF9A844FD46F28683B2F232" box="[741,1178,3387,3482]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="18" pageNumber="93" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="borneensis">
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<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF9A844FD46F28683B2F232" box="[741,1178,3387,3482]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">borneensis</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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there is some tendency towards a slight emargination of the lateral margins of the lancet; this tendency lias been carried almost to an extreme in
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<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF9A844F910F1AC80B4F1D8" authorityName="Temm." box="[1715,1948,3601,3696]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="18" pageNumber="100" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rouxi">
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<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF9A844F910F1AC80B4F1D8" box="[1715,1948,3601,3696]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">rouXi</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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: the lancet is
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<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF9A844F59EF1AC8CA8F1D8" box="[2621,2944,3601,3696]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">hastate,</emphasis>
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i. e., abruptly
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<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF9A844FDCCF1C08325F174" box="[623,1037,3709,3804]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">narrowed</emphasis>
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in the middle, the tip well developed and slender (not abnormally shortened, as in
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<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF9A844F7A2F15A8EB2F0EE" box="[2049,2458,3815,3910]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">
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<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF9A844F7A2F15A8E78F0EE" authorityName="Andersen" authorityYear="1905" box="[2049,2384,3815,3910]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="18" pageNumber="93" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="thomasi">thomasi</taxonomicName>
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);
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</emphasis>
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but still, individually (though, as it seems, rather rarely), in
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<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF9A844F662F0EE8DE8F01A" box="[2497,2752,3923,4018]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">
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<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF9A844F662F0EE8D99F01A" authorityName="Temm." box="[2497,2737,3923,4018]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="18" pageNumber="100" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rouxi">rouXi</taxonomicName>
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,
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</emphasis>
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the lancet is less abruptly narrowed, as an atavism towards a passed stage. The ears are as in
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<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF9A844FB48EF9A8191EF2E" box="[1259,1721,4135,4230]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">
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<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF9A844FB48EF9A8185EF2E" box="[1259,1709,4135,4230]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="18" pageNumber="93" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="borneensis">borneensis</taxonomicName>
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.
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</emphasis>
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BD236FBFFF9A844FD42EF2E8C89ECD8" blockId="18.[619,3583,1996,5957]" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">
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Wing-structure almost on the
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<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF9A844F732EF2E8C91EF5B" box="[2193,3001,4243,4339]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">simpleX-borneensis</emphasis>
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stage,
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<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF9A844F296EF2E8AC5EF5A" box="[3381,3565,4243,4338]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">i. e.,</emphasis>
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III.2 almost always
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<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF9A844F9B6EF40818EEEF4" box="[1557,1702,4349,4444]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">less</emphasis>
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than lg the length of III.1 The rare individual exception, that III.2 is equal to (or a mere trifle more than)
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<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF9A844FB1CEE6E83C4ED9A" bold="true" box="[1215,1260,4563,4658]" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">4</emphasis>
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the length of III.1, is of some interest as foreshadowing the next important step to be taken in the series of evolution, viz., from
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<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF9A844F9F6ED1A8068ECAE" authorityName="Temm." box="[1621,1856,4775,4870]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="18" pageNumber="100" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rouxi">
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<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF9A844F9F6ED1A8068ECAE" box="[1621,1856,4775,4870]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">rouXi</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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to
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<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF9A844F7A6ED1A8E0CECAE" box="[2053,2340,4775,4870]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">
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<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF9A844F7A6ED1A8E3EECAE" box="[2053,2326,4775,4870]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="18" pageNumber="93" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="affinis">affinis</taxonomicName>
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,
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</emphasis>
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in which species III.2 is
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<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF9A844FDDEECAC81FCECD8" box="[637,1748,4881,4976]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">always considerably more</emphasis>
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than lg the length of III.1
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BD236FBFFF9A844FD44ECC680A1EA2E" blockId="18.[619,3583,1996,5957]" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">
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Plagiopatagium inserted on, or 1-4 mm. above, the tarsus,
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<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF9A844F2E0ECC68ADBEC72" box="[3395,3571,4987,5082]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">i. e.,</emphasis>
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there is evidently some tendency to draw the insertion of this membrane
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<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF9A844FBD4EBEE8248EB1A" box="[1143,1376,5203,5298]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">away</emphasis>
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from the ankle-joint, a little higher up on the tibia; compare with this
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<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF9A844F8AEEB008FC0EAB4" box="[1805,2280,5309,5404]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">
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<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF9A844F8AEEB008FF5EAB4" box="[1805,2269,5309,5404]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="18" pageNumber="93" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="affinis">Rh. affinis</taxonomicName>
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.
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</emphasis>
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The proportionate length of the tail is as in
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<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF9A844FA1CEA9A80A1EA2E" box="[1471,1929,5415,5510]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">
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<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF9A844FA1CEA9A8055EA2E" box="[1471,1917,5415,5510]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="18" pageNumber="93" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="borneensis">borneensis</taxonomicName>
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.
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</emphasis>
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</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="8BD236FBFFF9A845FD44EA2C84E7F8B1" blockId="18.[619,3583,1996,5957]" lastBlockId="19.[624,3587,642,5978]" lastPageId="19" lastPageNumber="94" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">
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<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF9A844FD44EA2C84CAEA58" box="[743,994,5521,5616]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">Skull.</emphasis>
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The skull of
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<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF9A844F9D4EA2C8F0AEA58" authorityName="Temm." box="[1655,2082,5521,5616]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="18" pageNumber="100" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rouxi">
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<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF9A844F9D4EA2C8F0AEA58" box="[1655,2082,5521,5616]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">Rh. rouXi</emphasis>
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</taxonomicName>
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is
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<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF9A844F708EA2C8E84EA58" box="[2219,2476,5521,5616]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">larger</emphasis>
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than that of
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<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF9A844F384EA2C8ADDEA58" box="[3111,3573,5521,5616]" italics="true" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">
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<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF9A844F384EA2C8ACEEA58" box="[3111,3558,5521,5616]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="18" pageNumber="93" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="borneensis">borneensis</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
but I fail to find any appreciable difference in the shape—a strong evidence of the
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF9A844F964E9D880A0E96C" bold="true" box="[1735,1928,5733,5828]" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">very</emphasis>
|
||
close relationship between
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF9A844F336E9D88A0AE96C" bold="true" box="[3221,3362,5733,5828]" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">the</emphasis>
|
||
two species. The individual variation in the size of
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF9A844F408E96E8B12E89A" bold="true" box="[2987,3130,5843,5938]" pageId="18" pageNumber="93">the</emphasis>
|
||
skull, in
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845FDDAFD3C8452FD48" box="[633,890,641,736]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF8A845FDDAFD3C8443FD48" authorityName="Temm." box="[633,875,641,736]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="19" pageNumber="100" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rouxi">rouXi</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
is rather considerable (as is also the variation in the ex ternal dimensions of this Bat); but among 8 skulls of the typical form of
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845FBB4FCE4823EFC10" box="[1047,1302,857,952]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF8A845FBB4FCE4822FFC10" authorityName="Temm." box="[1047,1287,857,952]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="19" pageNumber="100" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rouxi">rouXi</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
from localities so many and so distant
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845F314FCE48929FC10" box="[3255,3585,857,952]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">inter se</emphasis>
|
||
as to represent practically the whole area covered by this form, I do not find any so small as the
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845F686FB908D68FB24" box="[2341,2624,1069,1164]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">largest</emphasis>
|
||
among 1 skulls of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF8A845FD22FB2A8310FB5E" box="[641,1080,1175,1270]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="19" pageNumber="94" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="borneensis">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845FD22FB2A8310FB5E" box="[641,1080,1175,1270]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">borneensis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(and
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845FAD8FB2A8012FB5E" box="[1403,1850,1175,1270]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">b. spadiX)</emphasis>
|
||
; in so far there is no difficulty in discriminating them. The tooth-rows, too, in
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845F54AFAB88CC2FACC" box="[2793,3050,1285,1380]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF8A845F54AFAB88CF3FACC" authorityName="Temm." box="[2793,3035,1285,1380]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="19" pageNumber="100" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rouxi">rouXi</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
are longer. As to the small S. Chinese race of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF8A845F6BCFAD08D24FA64" authorityName="Temm." box="[2335,2572,1389,1484]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="19" pageNumber="100" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rouxi">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845F6BCFAD08D24FA64" box="[2335,2572,1389,1484]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">rouXi</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(described below), the skull has the same length as the
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845F744FA648D2AF990" box="[2279,2562,1497,1592]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">largest</emphasis>
|
||
of
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845F560FA648BA7F990" box="[2755,3215,1497,1592]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF8A845F560FA648BA8F990" box="[2755,3200,1497,1592]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="19" pageNumber="94" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="borneensis">borneensis</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
but the brain-case is decidedly broader, the zygomatic and maxiliar width greater.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD236FBFFF8A845FD4CF8A68BFDF5F6" blockId="19.[624,3587,642,5978]" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845FD4CF8A683ACF8D2" box="[751,1156,1819,1914]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">Dentition</emphasis>
|
||
(19 skulls). p3, most often, quite external (12 skulls); not rarely half in row, or | in row (6 skulls); in one
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845F29CF83A8AD7F84E" box="[3391,3583,1927,2022]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">aged</emphasis>
|
||
individual (teeth much worn) p.
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845F7AEF8528F32F7E6" box="[2061,2074,2031,2126]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">s</emphasis>
|
||
is wanting, on both sides of the mandible, and the alveoli have disappeared. Cingula of p2 and p(, most often, in contact or separated by a very narrow, sometimes almost hairfine, interspace (13 skulls); in the remaining (6) individuals, distinctly separated, but the width of the interspace is not always quite the same on both sides of the mandible.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD236FBFFF8A845FD4EF5C8836AF109" blockId="19.[624,3587,642,5978]" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">
|
||
The upper canine and p1 are, with rare exceptions, distinctly separated, p2 completely in the tooth-row (17 skulls, out of 19), as in all the foregoing species. The size of p2 and, therefore, the width of the interspace between c and p4 vary, however, to a certain extent; but in
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845F900F39E8022F32A" box="[1699,1802,3107,3202]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">no</emphasis>
|
||
instance is the width of the interspace as broad as (p2 as well developed as) in
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF8A845F6C6F3308D84F344" authorityName="Andersen" authorityYear="1905" box="[2405,2732,3213,3308]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="19" pageNumber="135" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="simplex">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845F6C6F3308D84F344" box="[2405,2732,3213,3308]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">simpleX</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
: this is a thing of the past. As to the remaining two skulls (Ceylon, Nepal), the interspace is very narrow, /
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845F8F8F2DE8ED8F26A" box="[1883,2544,3427,3522]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF8A845F8F8F2DE8F44F26A" box="[1883,2156,3427,3522]" higherTaxonomySource="Manual Input" pageId="19" pageNumber="94" rank="subSpecies" subSpecies="half">r half</taxonomicName>
|
||
eXternal.
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
This is the first time we have to note instances of p2 not being
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845F544F2708BB4F184" box="[2791,3228,3533,3628]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">completely</emphasis>
|
||
in the tooth-row.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD236FBFFF8A845FD4CF11E8B59ED6C" blockId="19.[624,3587,642,5978]" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">
|
||
As a general conclusion:
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845F82EF11E80D3F0AA" box="[1933,2043,3747,3842]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">—</emphasis>
|
||
(1) In
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF8A845F6C8F11E8C06F0AA" authorityName="Temm." box="[2411,2862,3747,3842]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="19" pageNumber="100" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rouxi">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845F6C8F11E8C06F0AA" box="[2411,2862,3747,3842]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">Rh. rouXi</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
p3 lias arrived so far on its way towards disappearance as to be, generally, external; but still, not rarely, the individual variation
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845F3F2F0C48929F070" box="[3153,3585,3961,4056]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">falls back</emphasis>
|
||
to a former stage: p.t partly in the tooth-row; and in some aged individuals the dentition (p3 disappeared)
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845F674EFF28B88EF06" box="[2519,3232,4175,4270]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">points forwards</emphasis>
|
||
to subsequent stages in the series of evolution:
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF8A845F5C0EF068928EEB2" box="[2659,3584,4283,4378]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="19" pageNumber="94" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="ferrum-equinum">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845F5C0EF068928EEB2" box="[2659,3584,4283,4378]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">Rh. ferrum-equinum</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(p3 rather often lost) and
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF8A845F8BAEE9E8FDAEE2A" authorityName="Heuglin" authorityYear="1861" box="[1817,2290,4387,4482]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="19" pageNumber="94" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="acrotis">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845F8BAEE9E8FDAEE2A" box="[1817,2290,4387,4482]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">Rh. acrotis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(p3 always lost). (2) As to p2 in
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845FCDAEE2C8354EE58" box="[889,1148,4497,4592]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF8A845FCDAEE2C8345EE58" authorityName="Temm." box="[889,1133,4497,4592]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="19" pageNumber="100" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rouxi">rouXi</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
it is generally in the row, rarely half external; this latter, again, points
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845FA4AEE4680AFEDF2" box="[1513,1927,4603,4698]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">forwards</emphasis>
|
||
towards subsequent stages:
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845F33AEE468245ED6C" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF8A845F33AEE468ADAEDF3" authorityName="Andersen" authorityYear="1905" box="[3225,3570,4603,4699]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="19" pageNumber="94" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="thomasi">thomasi</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF8A845FD2AEDD88275ED6C" box="[649,1373,4709,4804]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="19" pageNumber="94" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="ferrum-equinum">ferrum-equinum</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
and
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF8A845F9F0EDD88058ED6C" authorityName="Heuglin" authorityYear="1861" box="[1619,1904,4709,4804]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="19" pageNumber="94" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="acrotis">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845F9F0EDD88058ED6C" box="[1619,1904,4709,4804]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">acrotis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(p2 always external, or lost).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection id="C3776570FFF8A845FD56ED6C8091EC36" pageId="19" pageNumber="94" type="distribution">
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD236FBFFF8A845FD56ED6C8091EC36" blockId="19.[624,3587,642,5978]" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845FD56ED6C820AEC98" box="[757,1314,4817,4912]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">Distribution.</emphasis>
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845FAFEED6C8162EC98" bold="true" box="[1373,1610,4817,4912]" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">From</emphasis>
|
||
S. China through the Himalayas to the Indian Peninsula and Ceylon.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection id="C3776570FFF8A841FD20EC188E0AF94C" lastPageId="23" lastPageNumber="98" pageId="19" pageNumber="94" type="discussion">
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD236FBFFF8A845FD20EC188929E92A" blockId="19.[624,3587,642,5978]" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">
|
||
.
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845FD58EC188284EBAC" box="[763,1452,5029,5124]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">Technical name.</emphasis>
|
||
As
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF8A845F9DCEC188F00EBAC" authorityName="Temm." box="[1663,2088,5029,5124]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="19" pageNumber="100" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rouxi">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845F9DCEC188F00EBAC" box="[1663,2088,5029,5124]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">Rh. rouXi</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
has for many years been completely confused with
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845F922EBAC8F76EBD8" box="[1665,2142,5137,5232]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF8A845F922EBAC8F78EBD8" box="[1665,2128,5137,5232]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="19" pageNumber="94" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="affinis">Rh. affinis</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
some remarks are necessary to pròve that the name
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF8A845F93EEBC680AEEB72" authorityName="Temm." box="[1693,1926,5243,5338]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="19" pageNumber="100" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rouxi">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845F93EEBC680AEEB72" box="[1693,1926,5243,5338]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">rouXi</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
belongs to the species here under consideration. The type locality of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF8A845F694EB588DF2EAEC" authorityName="Temm." box="[2359,2778,5349,5444]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="19" pageNumber="100" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rouxi">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845F694EB588DF2EAEC" box="[2359,2778,5349,5444]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">Rh. rouXi</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is “ Calcutta
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845F2F4EB588AA8EAEC" box="[3415,3456,5349,5444]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">”</emphasis>
|
||
*; the types (in the Leiden Museum) were collected by the French naturalist, M. Roux. There is in the Tomes Collection (British Museum') a skin also collected by Roux. The essential points
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD236FBFFF8A845FD10E91F825CE91E" blockId="19.[624,3587,642,5978]" box="[691,1396,5794,5816]" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845FD10E91F8439E910" box="[691,785,5794,5816]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">9 ~ 9</emphasis>
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845FACCE915825CE91E" bold="true" box="[1391,1396,5800,5814]" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">f</emphasis>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<footnote id="E8762AF5FFF8A845FD75E90A8A63E8E2" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD236FBFFF8A845FD75E90A8A63E8E2" blockId="19.[624,3587,642,5978]" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">
|
||
* Temminck,
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845FB41E90A827BE952" box="[1250,1363,5815,5882]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">l oc.</emphasis>
|
||
infra
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845F9C2E90A81CAE952" box="[1633,1762,5815,5882]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">cit.,</emphasis>
|
||
p. 30
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845F7AAE90A8F78E952" box="[2057,2128,5815,5882]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">c;</emphasis>
|
||
Jentink, 6 Catalogue systématique des Mammifères/ Mus.
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFF8A845FAEBE8BA8130E8E2" box="[1352,1560,5895,5962]" italics="true" pageId="19" pageNumber="94">d’hist</emphasis>
|
||
. nat. Pays-Bas, xii. (1888) p. 161 (under
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFF8A845F40DE8BA8A01E8E2" box="[2990,3369,5895,5962]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="19" pageNumber="94" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="affinis">Rh. affinis</taxonomicName>
|
||
).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</footnote>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD236FBFFFFA842FDE2FDDE835BFC82" blockId="20.[569,3527,609,5953]" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">in the original description as given by Temminck are the following:—</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD236FBFFFFA842FD0EFC8A8EC1FB70" blockId="20.[569,3527,609,5953]" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">
|
||
(1) In
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842FBA8FC8A831EFC3E" box="[1035,1078,823,918]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">“</emphasis>
|
||
taille, forme du corps, des oreilles et des follicules accessoires du nez” very much like Java specimens of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFFA842F458FC1E830AFBC2" authority="Horsf. It" authorityName="Horsf. It" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="95" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="affinis">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842F458FC1E8AEFFBAA" box="[3067,3527,931,1026]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">Rh. affinis</emphasis>
|
||
Horsf. It
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
may be said so; the difference in the shape of the sella is not easily ascertained in dried skins.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD236FBFFFFA842FD0CFB5E8E9BF42A" blockId="20.[569,3527,609,5953]" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">
|
||
(2) “ Des proportions moins grandes,
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842F68CFB5E8E7AFAEA" box="[2351,2386,1251,1346]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">”</emphasis>
|
||
as compared with
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842F33CFB5E8AE8FAEA" box="[3231,3520,1251,1346]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFFA842F33CFB5E8A9CFAEA" box="[3231,3508,1251,1346]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="95" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="affinis">affinis</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
As measurements Temminck gives:—Of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFFA842F6CAFAF28D7CFA06" authorityName="Temm." box="[2409,2644,1359,1454]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="95" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rouxi">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842F6CAFAF28D7CFA06" box="[2409,2644,1359,1454]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">rouxi</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
: forearm “ 1 pouce 0 lignes ” (49
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842FB70FA0483C3F9B0" box="[1235,1259,1465,1560]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">‘</emphasis>
|
||
5 mm.), expanse of wings “
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842F674FA048D2FF9B0" bold="true" box="[2519,2567,1465,1560]" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">0</emphasis>
|
||
pouces.
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842F438FA048CE8F9B0" box="[2971,3008,1465,1560]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">”</emphasis>
|
||
Of
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842F336FA048AE9F9B0" box="[3221,3521,1465,1560]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">affinis'.</emphasis>
|
||
forearm “ 1 pouce 0 lignes,
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842F786F99E8F62F92A" box="[2085,2122,1571,1666]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">”</emphasis>
|
||
expanse
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842F59AF99E8DB9F92A" box="[2617,2705,1571,1666]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">“</emphasis>
|
||
1 à 2 pouces.” 49'5 mm. is one of the commonest measurements of the forearm in the series before me. It looks a little contradictory that Temminck, having stated that
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFFA842F80AF8DE8FBEF86A" authorityName="Temm." box="[1961,2198,1891,1986]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="100" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rouxi">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842F80AF8DE8FBEF86A" box="[1961,2198,1891,1986]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">rouXi</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is smaller than
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFFA842F4CEF8DE8B50F86A" box="[2925,3192,1891,1986]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="95" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="affinis">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842F4CEF8DE8B50F86A" box="[2925,3192,1891,1986]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">affinis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(which is quite correct), gives precisely the same measurement of their forearms, though, at the same time, a considerably larger “ expanse
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842FBA6F71C8302F6A8" box="[1029,1066,2209,2304]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">”</emphasis>
|
||
of the latter species. But just that is the salient point. As a matter of fact, the two species
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842F5ACF6B08D8CF6C4" box="[2575,2724,2317,2412]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">can</emphasis>
|
||
have the forearm of exactly the same length (very large
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842F6CCF6CA8D46F67E" box="[2415,2670,2423,2518]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFFA842F6CCF6CA8D77F67E" authorityName="Temm." box="[2415,2655,2423,2518]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="100" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rouxi">rouXi</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
and small
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842F3C6F6CA8A97F67E" box="[3173,3519,2423,2518]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFFA842F3C6F6CA8A43F67E" box="[3173,3435,2423,2518]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="95" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="affinis">affinis</taxonomicName>
|
||
};
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
but also in that case,
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842F9A0F65E8F43F5EA" box="[1539,2155,2531,2626]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">the eXpanse of</emphasis>
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFFA842F72CF65E8D67F5EA" box="[2191,2639,2531,2626]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="95" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="affinis">Rh. affinis</taxonomicName>
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842F5D2F65E82AAF506" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">is always markedly larger than that of</emphasis>
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFFA842FA3AF5F2807EF506" authorityName="Temm." box="[1433,1878,2639,2734]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="95" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rouxi">Rh. rouxi</taxonomicName>
|
||
, for the obvious reason that in the former species the second phalanx of the third (longest) finger is always
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842FC24F49E8206F42A" box="[903,1326,2851,2946]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">absolutely</emphasis>
|
||
longer than in the latter.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD236FBFFFFA842FD08F4308CC5F232" blockId="20.[569,3527,609,5953]" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">
|
||
(
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842FD6EF4308429F444" bold="true" box="[717,769,2957,3052]" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">3</emphasis>
|
||
) A red, a dark, and an intermediate phase of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFFA842F474F4308BE8F444" authorityName="Temm." box="[3031,3264,2957,3052]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="100" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rouxi">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842F474F4308BE8F444" box="[3031,3264,2957,3052]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">rouXi</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
were known to Temminck. I have the same phases before me. That similar phases occur in
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFFA842F918F3D88E62F36C" box="[1723,2378,3173,3268]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="95" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="borneensis">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842F918F3D88E62F36C" box="[1723,2378,3173,3268]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">Rh. borneensis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
has no bearing on the present technical question;
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFFA842F860F3728E52F286" box="[1987,2426,3279,3374]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="95" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="borneensis">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842F860F3728E52F286" box="[1987,2426,3279,3374]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">borneensis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
lives far away from
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842FD9CF2868544F232" box="[575,620,3387,3482]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">“</emphasis>
|
||
Calcutta.” The “phases
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842F8A0F286800EF232" box="[1795,1830,3387,3482]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">”</emphasis>
|
||
of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFFA842F86AF2868EA2F232" box="[1993,2442,3387,3482]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="95" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="affinis">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842F86AF2868EA2F232" box="[1993,2442,3387,3482]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">Rh. affinis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
are different.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD236FBFFFFA842FD08F21E8B74EEF0" blockId="20.[569,3527,609,5953]" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">
|
||
(4)
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842FCFCF21E84A4F1AA" box="[863,908,3491,3586]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">“</emphasis>
|
||
Les molaires de la mâchoire supérieure sont en même nombre que dans l'
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842FA3AF1B28192F1C6" box="[1433,1722,3599,3694]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFFA842FA3AF1B28184F1C6" box="[1433,1708,3599,3694]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="95" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="affinis">affinis</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
celles de l’inférieure en compte cinq, ou une de moins, par le manque total de la petite dent dont l'
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFFA842F31AF1C68AE9F172" box="[3257,3521,3707,3802]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="95" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="affinis">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842F31AF1C68AE9F172" box="[3257,3521,3707,3802]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">affinis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
est pourvu, et qui forme la sixième molaire.
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842F5F2F1588D5EF0EC" box="[2641,2678,3813,3908]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">”</emphasis>
|
||
Since Temminck emphasises the “ manque total
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842F83CF0EC80EEF018" box="[1951,1990,3921,4016]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">”</emphasis>
|
||
of p3, I suppose that he has not overlooked this small tooth, but has examined a (probably aged) individual in which it was wanting (
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842F762EF988E3FEF2C" box="[2241,2327,4133,4228]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">cf</emphasis>
|
||
. the specimen mentioned above). The word “ sixième
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842F884EF328062EF46" box="[1831,1866,4239,4334]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">”</emphasis>
|
||
is, of course, a lapsus for “ cinquième ” (Temminck counted the
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842F92CEF448194EEF0" box="[1679,1724,4345,4440]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">“</emphasis>
|
||
molars
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842F7BAEF448F14EEF0" box="[2073,2108,4345,4440]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">”</emphasis>
|
||
from behind forwards).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD236FBFFFFA842FD0CEED88462EC71" blockId="20.[569,3527,609,5953]" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">
|
||
To sum up:—There can be no doubt that Temminck’s
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFFA842F384EED88AEDEE6C" authorityName="Temm." box="[3111,3525,4453,4548]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="100" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rouxi">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842F384EED88AEDEE6C" box="[3111,3525,4453,4548]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">Rh. rouXi</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
is the Bat here under consideration, being a species (1) bearing much resemblance to
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFFA842F9ACED8680E6ED32" box="[1551,1998,4667,4762]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="20" pageNumber="95" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="affinis">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842F9ACED8680E6ED32" box="[1551,1998,4667,4762]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">Rh. affinis</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
; (2) of almost the same size, but with a markedly smaller expanse of wings; (
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842F5B6ED188D60ECAC" bold="true" box="[2581,2632,4773,4868]" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">3</emphasis>
|
||
) with a red, a dark, and an intermediate phase; and (4) inhabiting the Continent of India.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD236FBFFFFA842FD10EC588A95E96C" blockId="20.[569,3527,609,5953]" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">
|
||
“
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842FD5AEC5883C1EBEC" box="[761,1257,5093,5188]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">Rh. petersi.</emphasis>
|
||
”
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842FABAEC588255EBEC" box="[1305,1405,5093,5188]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">—</emphasis>
|
||
The original description of
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842F592EC588B20EBEC" box="[2609,3080,5093,5188]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">Rh. petersi</emphasis>
|
||
is meagre ami vague; the figures of the head and nose-leaves published four
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842FDE2EB068400EAB2" box="[577,808,5307,5402]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">years</emphasis>
|
||
later are badly drawn; the type specimen (in the Calcutta Museum) has no indication of locality. This may sufficiently account for the fact that no technical name in the genus lias been the source of more confusion. I therefore think it of some use to give a brief sketch of its rather complicated history in literature:—
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD236FBFFFFA840FD0CE9728389FA82" blockId="20.[569,3527,609,5953]" lastBlockId="22.[579,3548,586,4425]" lastPageId="22" lastPageNumber="97" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">
|
||
(
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842FD6CE972842CE886" box="[719,772,5839,5934]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">«</emphasis>
|
||
) As to the identification
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842F846E9728F55E886" box="[2021,2173,5839,5934]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">of’</emphasis>
|
||
“
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842F771E9728DC0E886" box="[2258,2792,5839,5934]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">h. petersi,”</emphasis>
|
||
in the
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFFA842F3CAE9728AECE886" box="[3177,3524,5839,5934]" italics="true" pageId="20" pageNumber="95">original</emphasis>
|
||
sense of the term, there are
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843F7BAFDE08B76FD14" box="[2073,3166,605,700]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">only</emphasis>
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFEA843FD10FD7A8C38FC8E" box="[691,2832,711,806]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="134" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="acuminatus">
|
||
Rh.
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843F6AEFD7A8C38FC8E" box="[2317,2832,711,806]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">acuminatus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
section. I have not the slightest hesitation in referring the name as a synonym to the former species. As, however, Dobson himself later on applied the name to two Bats of the
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFEA843F630FBB48CBCFBC0" box="[2451,2964,1033,1128]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="96" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="acuminatus">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843F630FBB48CBCFBC0" box="[2451,2964,1033,1128]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">acuminatus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
section, it will only be necessary to give evidence, from his own description, that he was mistaken. The only important points in the description of
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843FC8CFAFA8278FA0E" box="[815,1360,1351,1446]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">“ Bh. petersi</emphasis>
|
||
as given by Dobson in 187'2 and 1876, 7.
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843F37EFAFA8A32FA0E" box="[3293,3354,1351,1446]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">e.</emphasis>
|
||
at the time
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843FC04FA0E8DF7F9BA" box="[935,2783,1459,1554]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">when he had access to the type specimen,</emphasis>
|
||
are the following (the italics are mine)—(1) The nose-leaves are “as in
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843F200F9A083ECF940" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">
|
||
Bh.
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFEA843FD10F934839FF940" box="[691,1207,1673,1768]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="96" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="acuminatus">acuminatus</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
except the upper border of the posterior connecting process, which is
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843FA18F94C8F9CF8F8" box="[1467,2228,1777,1872]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">much less acute."</emphasis>
|
||
This statement alone would be sufficient. In
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFEA843F9B2F8E08F3AF814" box="[1553,2066,1885,1980]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="96" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="acuminatus">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843F9B2F8E08F3AF814" box="[1553,2066,1885,1980]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">acuminatus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
the shape of the sella and lancet is very much as in
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843F9AAF8748024F780" box="[1545,1804,1993,2088]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFEA843F9AAF87481D5F780" authorityName="Temm." box="[1545,1789,1993,2088]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="100" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rouxi">rouXi</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
but the connecting process, both in
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFEA843FD14F78C8390F738" box="[695,1208,2097,2192]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="96" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="acuminatus">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843FD14F78C8390F738" box="[695,1208,2097,2192]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">acuminatus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and in
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843F9E0F78C819CF738" box="[1603,1716,2097,2192]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">all</emphasis>
|
||
its allies
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843F73EF78C8AEBF738" box="[2205,3523,2097,2192]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">
|
||
(
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFEA843F71EF78C8DE6F738" authorityName="Andersen" authorityYear="1905" box="[2237,2766,2097,2192]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="96" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sumatranus">sumatranus</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFEA843F4A4F78C8B6EF738" authorityName="Andersen" authorityYear="1905" box="[2823,3142,2097,2192]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="96" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="calypso">calypso</taxonomicName>
|
||
, audaX),
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
is
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843FD0AF7228348F756" box="[681,1120,2207,2302]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">projecting</emphasis>
|
||
and
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843FAC8F72281CAF756" box="[1387,1762,2207,2302]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">pointed;</emphasis>
|
||
there is, in this respect, no
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843F332F7228913F756" box="[3217,3643,2207,2302]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">difference</emphasis>
|
||
between the species of the
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFEA843F8C6F6B48E4AF6C0" box="[1893,2402,2313,2408]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="96" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="acuminatus">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843F8C6F6B48E4AF6C0" box="[1893,2402,2313,2408]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">acuminatus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
section, and there is also no appreciable individual variation. When, therefore, Dobson in this decisive point (the chief character of the whole group to which
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFEA843FD14F5F4839EF500" box="[695,1206,2633,2728]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="96" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="acuminatus">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843FD14F5F4839EF500" box="[695,1206,2633,2728]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">acuminatus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
belongs) declares his
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843F73AF5F48D47F500" box="[2201,2671,2633,2728]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">Rh. petersi</emphasis>
|
||
to be very different from
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843FC0CF50E82ECF4BA" box="[943,1476,2739,2834]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFEA843FC0CF50E829CF4BA" box="[943,1460,2739,2834]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="96" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="acuminatus">acuminatus</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
it may safely be said that it has nothing to do with that group. Dobson had evidently before him an example of
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843FC84F43683F8F442" box="[807,1232,2955,3050]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">
|
||
Bh.
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFEA843FC40F43683F8F442" authorityName="Temm." box="[995,1232,2955,3050]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="100" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rouxi">rouXi</taxonomicName>
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
with a
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843F996F4368FB2F442" box="[1589,2202,2955,3050]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">slightly raised</emphasis>
|
||
connecting process (
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843F3E2F4368B44F442" box="[3137,3180,2955,3050]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">“</emphasis>
|
||
much less acute’’than in
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843FADCF44A80B6F3FE" box="[1407,1950,3063,3158]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFEA843FADCF44A80ABF3FE" box="[1407,1923,3063,3158]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="96" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="acuminatus">acuminatus</taxonomicName>
|
||
)
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
; such individuals are by no means rare; there are several in the British Museum, and the peculiarity is
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843FC86F376836EF282" box="[805,1094,3275,3370]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">purely</emphasis>
|
||
individual. Dobson found, quite naturally, that this peculiarity recalled that shape of the connecting process which had been described, one year earlier, by Peters in a species called by him
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFEA843FC20F1B6816AF1C2" box="[899,1602,3595,3690]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="96" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="acuminatus">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843FC20F1B6816AF1C2" box="[899,1602,3595,3690]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">Rh. acuminatus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
and. consequently, he compared it, in his paper, with this latter species, at the same time emphasising that there was a considerable difference. (2) The figure (side view) in Dobson’s ‘ Monograph,
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843F910F0F081EAF004" box="[1715,1730,3917,4012]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">’</emphasis>
|
||
however bad it is, can scarcely represent the shape of the connecting process in
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843F624F0088CB5EFBC" box="[2439,2973,4021,4116]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">acum inatus.</emphasis>
|
||
Dobson has, no doubt, called the attention of his artist to the connectingprocess of the specimen to be figured as
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843F61EEF368C82EF43" box="[2493,2986,4235,4331]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">Bh. petersi,</emphasis>
|
||
and the artist, in due obedience, has made his best to “ emphasise
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843F46EEF4A8CDAEEFE" box="[3021,3058,4343,4438]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">”</emphasis>
|
||
that point: this may account, I think, for the process being somewhat more exao-o-erated than in ordinary individuals of
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843F52AEE768C8AED82" box="[2697,2978,4555,4650]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFEA843F52AEE768C5EED82" authorityName="Temm." box="[2697,2934,4555,4650]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="100" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rouxi">rouXi</taxonomicName>
|
||
;
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
but it is still not the process of an
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843F88EED888E16ED3C" box="[1837,2366,4661,4756]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFEA843F88EED888E19ED3C" box="[1837,2353,4661,4756]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="96" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="acuminatus">acuminatus</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
(3) The measurements of
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843FD0CED2284FBED56" box="[687,979,4767,4862]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">petersi</emphasis>
|
||
are, without any exception,
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843F746ED228D4BED56" box="[2277,2659,4767,4862]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">perfectly</emphasis>
|
||
like those of several unquestionable specimens of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFEA843F804ECB68FBAECC2" authorityName="Temm." box="[1959,2194,4875,4970]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="100" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rouxi">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843F804ECB68FBAECC2" box="[1959,2194,4875,4970]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">rouXi</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
measured by myself; there is not the slightest indication of a difference. (4) The type of
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843F304ECC88AE3EC7C" box="[3239,3531,4981,5076]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">petersi</emphasis>
|
||
is from
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843FC0CEC6284DDEB96" box="[943,1013,5087,5182]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">“</emphasis>
|
||
India, precise locality unknown.” The
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFEA843F54EEC628BCDEB96" box="[2797,3301,5087,5182]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="96" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="acuminatus">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843F54EEC628BCDEB96" box="[2797,3301,5087,5182]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">acuminatus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
section is distributed over Sumatra, Engano, Java, and Lombok. When Dobson wrote his ‘ Monograph,’ there was not, in the Calcutta Museum, any specimen of any species of
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843F54EEAA08A2FEAD4" box="[2797,3335,5405,5500]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">Bhinolophus</emphasis>
|
||
from those islands; so that, if
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843F834EA388EBAEA4C" box="[1943,2450,5509,5604]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">Rh. petersi</emphasis>
|
||
were a member of the
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFEA843FD0EEA4E8380E9FA" box="[685,1192,5619,5714]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="21" pageNumber="96" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="acuminatus">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843FD0EEA4E8380E9FA" box="[685,1192,5619,5714]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">acuminatus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
section, the type,
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843F786EA4E8DD9E9FA" box="[2085,2801,5619,5714]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">without locality,</emphasis>
|
||
would have been the only
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFDA840FC48FDF68123FD02" box="[1003,1547,587,682]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="22" pageNumber="97" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840FC48FDF68123FD02" box="[1003,1547,587,682]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">Rhinolophus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
in the museum from any of those islands. This is, of course, not beyond the limits of possibility; but it is certainly much more likely that
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840F7DEFC9E8DA4FC2B" box="[2173,2700,803,899]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">Rh. petersi,</emphasis>
|
||
as also the vast majority of the Bats in the Calcutta Museum at Dobson’s time, came from some part of the Indian Peninsula or the Himalayas, the habitat of
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840FB78FBDE81AEFB6A" box="[1243,1670,1123,1218]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">
|
||
h.
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFDA840FA24FBDE815FFB6A" authorityName="Temm." box="[1415,1655,1123,1218]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="22" pageNumber="100" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rouxi">rouXi</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
and far from the home of
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840F480FBDE8A86FB6A" box="[2851,3502,1123,1218]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">Rh. acuminatv.</emphasis>
|
||
s and its allies.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<footnote id="E8762AF5FFFEA843FCA0E9108FB5E833" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">
|
||
<footnote id="E8762AF5FFFEA843FCA0E9108904E958" box="[771,3628,5805,5872]" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD236FBFFFEA843FCA0E9108904E958" blockId="21.[697,3629,5804,6062]" box="[771,3628,5805,5872]" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">
|
||
* Dobson, J. A. S. B. xli. pt. ii. (Dee. 22, 1872) p. 337:
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843F56CE9108C34E958" box="[2767,2844,5805,5872]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">id</emphasis>
|
||
., Monogr. Asiat. Chir.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</footnote>
|
||
<footnote id="E8762AF5FFFEA843FD19E8B38FB5E833" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD236FBFFFEA843FD19E8B3816DE8F9" blockId="21.[697,3629,5804,6062]" box="[698,1605,5902,5969]" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">
|
||
(1876) p. 49, text-figs,
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843FA16E8B3816DE8F9" box="[1461,1605,5902,5969]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">a, b.</emphasis>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD236FBFFFEA843FD5CE8E58FB5E833" blockId="21.[697,3629,5804,6062]" box="[767,2205,5976,6043]" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFEA843FD5CE8E58401E833" box="[767,809,5976,6043]" italics="true" pageId="21" pageNumber="96">f</emphasis>
|
||
Peters, MB. Akad. Berlin, 1871, p. 308.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</footnote>
|
||
</footnote>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD236FBFFFDA840FD60FA8A820EF098" blockId="22.[579,3548,586,4425]" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">
|
||
To describe a new species which subsequently proves to be an old one is no rare
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840FA26FA1E8077F9AA" box="[1413,1887,1443,1538]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">occurrence</emphasis>
|
||
, and, as a rule, it does no very serious harm. But the strong emphasising of a purely individual peculiarity, combined with the circumstance that the type had no “ locality,
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840FBA4F9628302F896" box="[1031,1066,1759,1854]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">”</emphasis>
|
||
caused in this case a series of confusions:
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840F47CF9628AE7F896" box="[3039,3535,1759,1854]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">Rh. petersi</emphasis>
|
||
emerged, like a ghost, very unexpectedly at such different places as the Gold Coast, Sumatra, the Himalayas, and S. India. And, curiously enough, the author of the “ species
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840F530F7A28D90F7D6" box="[2707,2744,2079,2174]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">”</emphasis>
|
||
inaugurated the mistakes. When he had returned to London and was working out his ‘ Catalogue,’ Dobson had no longer access to the type of
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840FDECF6DC833FF668" box="[591,1047,2401,2496]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">Rh. petersi</emphasis>
|
||
; he had his own short description only, and perhaps some private note. It is quite evident that, in these circumstances and occupied with the study of many other Bats, he lost the precise idea of the type specimen; he only kept in his memory, as its most important character, its
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840F938F4B681E2F4C2" box="[1691,1738,2827,2922]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">“</emphasis>
|
||
projecting
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840F71EF4B68FC8F4C2" box="[2237,2272,2827,2922]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">”</emphasis>
|
||
connecting process. So it came that he referred a specimen labelled “ Gold Coast
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840F2A8F4C88A18F47C" box="[3339,3376,2933,3028]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">”</emphasis>
|
||
to
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840FDECF45C85B0F3E8" bold="true" box="[591,664,3041,3136]" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">7i</emphasis>
|
||
/i.
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840FD5EF45C830AF3E8" box="[765,1058,3041,3136]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">petersi</emphasis>
|
||
***§; for it is a genuine
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840F7D4F45C8DB8F3E8" box="[2167,2704,3041,3136]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">acuminatums,</emphasis>
|
||
beyond all doubt from Java, and Dobson himself would scarcely have been able to tell why he called it
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840F8A2F30A8F08F2BE" box="[1793,2080,3255,3350]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">petersi</emphasis>
|
||
instead of
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840F2ADF30A8AE2F2BE" bold="true" box="[3342,3530,3255,3350]" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">Two</emphasis>
|
||
years later, Dobson had for determination a collection of Bats belonging to the Gottingen Museum; among these he again believed he found a
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840F9A0F24A80F2F1FE" box="[1539,2010,3575,3670]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">Rh. petersi</emphasis>
|
||
t. I have had this example for inspection J; it is neither “
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840F89EF1DE8E7CF16A" box="[1853,2388,3683,3778]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">Rh. petersi ”</emphasis>
|
||
nor
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840F594F1DE8A22F16A" box="[2615,3338,3683,3778]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFDA840F594F1DE8BD2F16A" box="[2615,3322,3683,3778]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="22" pageNumber="97" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="acuminatus">Rh. acuminatus</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
but
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840FDEAF16C820EF098" box="[585,1318,3793,3888]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFDA840FDEAF16C8231F098" authorityName="Andersen" authorityYear="1905" box="[585,1305,3793,3888]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="22" pageNumber="97" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="sumatranus">Rh. sumatranus</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD236FBFFFDA840FD10F08A8CECEEEA" blockId="22.[579,3548,586,4425]" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">
|
||
(6) In a paper on some Himalayan Bats, Capt. Hutton § records
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840FDE4F0188306EFAC" box="[583,1070,4005,4100]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">Rh. petersi</emphasis>
|
||
from Masuri. All the Bats mentioned by
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840F3D8F0188AECEFAC" bold="true" box="[3195,3524,4005,4100]" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">Hutton</emphasis>
|
||
were presented to the “ Indian Museum,
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840F662EFB28ECEEFC6" box="[2497,2534,4111,4206]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">”</emphasis>
|
||
and are now in the British Museum. The two specimens labelled “
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840F4A0EFC48A26EF70" box="[2819,3342,4217,4312]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">Rh. petersi ”</emphasis>
|
||
are
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840FDE4EF5E8392EEEA" box="[583,1210,4323,4418]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFDA840FDE4EF5E8382EEEA" authorityName="Andersen" authorityYear="1905" box="[583,1194,4323,4418]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="22" pageNumber="97" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="monticola">Rh. monticola</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
a species closely allied to
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840F6F2EF5E8C90EEEA" box="[2385,3000,4323,4418]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">Rh. lejndzis ||.***</emphasis>
|
||
§
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<footnote id="E8762AF5FFFDA840FD2EEE1C8FA3E8DB" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD236FBFFFDA840FD2EEE1C8FF4EE4C" blockId="22.[562,3524,4512,6017]" box="[653,2268,4513,4580]" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">
|
||
* Dobson, Cat. Chir. Brit. Mus. (1878) p.
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840F7F5EE1C8FF4EE4C" bold="true" box="[2134,2268,4513,4580]" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">114.</emphasis>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD236FBFFFDA840FD2FEE4C8F29ED2B" blockId="22.[562,3524,4512,6017]" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">
|
||
t Dobson, “ On some new or rare Species of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFDA840F76FEE4C8D14ED9C" authorityName="Blumenbach" authorityYear="1779" box="[2252,2620,4593,4660]" class="Mammalia" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="22" pageNumber="97" phylum="Chordata" rank="order">Chiroptera</taxonomicName>
|
||
in the Collection of the Göttingen Museum,
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840FB5AEDFD8233ED2B" box="[1273,1307,4672,4739]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">”</emphasis>
|
||
P. Z. S. 1880, p. 462.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD236FBFFFDA840FD2FED328301EC8B" blockId="22.[562,3524,4512,6017]" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840FD2FED32859CED7A" box="[652,692,4751,4818]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">X</emphasis>
|
||
I am indebted to Geheimrat, Professor Dr. Ehlers, Göttingen, for the loan of this specimen.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD236FBFFFDA840FD2CEC968C3FEC15" blockId="22.[562,3524,4512,6017]" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">§ Hutton, “On the Bats of the North-western Himalayas; with Notes and Corrections in Nomenclature by Prof. W. Peters,” P. Z. S. 1872, p. 700.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD236FBFFFDA840FD2EEC748FA3E8DB" blockId="22.[562,3524,4512,6017]" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">
|
||
II As Hutton’s article is one of the very few papers which give information respecting the
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840FD61EBAA84B0EBF2" box="[706,920,5143,5210]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">habits</emphasis>
|
||
of Himalayan Bats, and therefore has been
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840F6D7EBAA8DFEEBF2" box="[2420,2774,5143,5210]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">frequently</emphasis>
|
||
quoted by subsequent writers, I think it advisable to correct the following errors in the identifications
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840F2DAEBDA8A96EB02" bold="true" box="[3449,3518,5223,5290]" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">of</emphasis>
|
||
the four species of
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFDA840FB49EB0B818DEB51" box="[1258,1701,5302,5369]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="22" pageNumber="97" phylum="Chordata" rank="genus">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840FB49EB0B818DEB51" box="[1258,1701,5302,5369]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">Rhinolophus</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
dealt with in that paper:—“
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFDA840F570EB0B8B46EB51" box="[2771,3182,5302,5369]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="22" pageNumber="145" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="affinis">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840F570EB0B8C67EB51" box="[2771,2895,5302,5369]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">Rh.</emphasis>
|
||
affinis
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840F3CDEB0B8BBCEB51" box="[3182,3220,5302,5369]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">”</emphasis>
|
||
(p. 696) is
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840FD29EABA835EEAE2" box="[650,1142,5383,5450]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840FD29EABA85D1EAE2" bold="true" box="[650,761,5383,5450]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">Rh</emphasis>
|
||
.
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFDA840FCBBEABA8367EAE2" box="[792,1103,5383,5450]" higherTaxonomySource="Manual Input" pageId="22" pageNumber="97" rank="species" species="pearsoni">pearsoni</taxonomicName>
|
||
;
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
“
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFDA840FB47EABA8116EAE2" authorityName="Temm." box="[1252,1598,5383,5450]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="22" pageNumber="100" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rouxi">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840FB47EABA8276EAE2" box="[1252,1374,5383,5450]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">Rh.</emphasis>
|
||
rouXi
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
” (p. 697) is
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840F7AFEABA8E8AEAE2" box="[2060,2466,5383,5450]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFDA840F7AFEABA8E54EAE2" box="[2060,2428,5383,5450]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="22" pageNumber="145" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="affinis">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840F7AFEABA8F52EAE2" bold="true" box="[2060,2170,5383,5450]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">Rh</emphasis>
|
||
. affinis
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
;
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
“
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840F5ABEABA8C80EAE2" box="[2568,2984,5383,5450]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">Rh. minor '7</emphasis>
|
||
(p. 698) is
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFDA840F29CEABA85D1EA3F" authorityName="Temm." class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="22" pageNumber="100" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rouxi">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840F29CEABA85D1EA3F" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840F29CEABA8A9AEAE2" bold="true" box="[3391,3506,5383,5450]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">Rh</emphasis>
|
||
. rouXi
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
; and, as pointed out above, “ Rif.
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840F801EAE98FE7EA3F" box="[1954,2255,5460,5527]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">petersi ”</emphasis>
|
||
(p. 700) is
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840F5E0EAE98B16EA3F" box="[2627,3134,5460,5527]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFDA840F5E0EAE98B1CEA3F" authorityName="Andersen" authorityYear="1905" box="[2627,3124,5460,5527]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="22" pageNumber="130" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="monticola">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840F5E0EAE98D9BEA3F" bold="true" box="[2627,2739,5460,5527]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">Rh</emphasis>
|
||
. monticola
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840F327EAE98A95EA3F" bold="true" box="[3204,3517,5460,5527]" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">Hutton’s</emphasis>
|
||
Bats were (as also stated in his paper) determined, not by himself, but by
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840F2B0EA198A87EA4F" bold="true" box="[3347,3503,5540,5607]" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">Prof</emphasis>
|
||
. Peters in Berlin. But the mistakes are so strange that they cannot,
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840F3B7EA488AE9E990" bold="true" box="[3092,3521,5621,5688]" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">certainly, be</emphasis>
|
||
due to Prof. Peters; an extensive confusion of labels must have occurred (I can rather easily, from Peters’s point of
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840F8FCE92F8F2CE97D" bold="true" box="[1887,2052,5778,5845]" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">view</emphasis>
|
||
, as laid down in his papers, guess the original arrangement of the labels), but the confusion had at all events
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840F3BEE95C8BF2E88C" bold="true" box="[3101,3290,5857,5924]" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">taken</emphasis>
|
||
place
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840FD9BE88D8422E8DB" box="[568,778,5936,6003]" italics="true" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">before</emphasis>
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840FC84E88D84BCE8DB" bold="true" box="[807,916,5936,6003]" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">the</emphasis>
|
||
snecimens were returned to
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFDA840F8D8E88D8FA3E8DB" bold="true" box="[1915,2187,5936,6003]" pageId="22" pageNumber="97">Hutton.</emphasis>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</footnote>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD236FBFFFCA841FD5AFDF28AC7FBF6" blockId="23.[650,3610,581,1987]" pageId="23" pageNumber="98">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFCA841FD5AFDF2846CFD06" bold="true" box="[761,836,591,686]" pageId="23" pageNumber="98">
|
||
(
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFCA841FCB4FDF2846CFD06" bold="true" box="[791,836,591,686]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="98">c</emphasis>
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
) In Blanford’s ‘ Fauna of British India
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFCA841F4AEFDF2835EFCB2" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="98">
|
||
’ (loc. infra
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFCA841F2CEFDF28ADBFD06" bold="true" box="[3437,3571,591,686]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="98">citi</emphasis>
|
||
) 1th. petersi
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
is
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFCA841FA96FD068183FCB2" bold="true" box="[1333,1707,699,794]" pageId="23" pageNumber="98">recorded</emphasis>
|
||
from Masuri and from Nilghiri. The former statement is borrowed from Hutton’s paper. The latter is based on an example collected by W. Davison in Coonoor, Nilghiri. This
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFCA841FCD8FC428222FBF6" bold="true" box="[891,1290,1023,1118]" pageId="23" pageNumber="98">specimen</emphasis>
|
||
is now in the British Museum. It is a
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFCA841F390FC428AC7FBF6" box="[3123,3567,1023,1118]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="98">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFCA841F390FC428ACBFBF6" authorityName="Temm." box="[3123,3555,1023,1118]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="23" pageNumber="100" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rouxi">Rh. rouXi</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD236FBFFFCA841FCA0FBDA8E0AF94C" blockId="23.[650,3610,581,1987]" pageId="23" pageNumber="98">
|
||
In short:
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFCA841FB6CFBDA8215FB6E" box="[1231,1341,1127,1222]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="98">—</emphasis>
|
||
(1) For reasons given above I regard
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFCA841F330FBDA893FFB6F" bold="true" box="[3219,3607,1127,1223]" pageId="23" pageNumber="98">Dobson’s</emphasis>
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFCA841FD34FB6E83A2FA9A" box="[663,1162,1235,1330]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="98">Rh. petersi</emphasis>
|
||
(1872 and 1876) as a synonym of
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFCA841F4C6FB6E8A62FA9A" box="[2917,3402,1235,1330]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="98">1th. rouXi’,</emphasis>
|
||
(2) Dobson’s
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFCA841FBC6FA80814AFA34" box="[1125,1634,1341,1436]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="98">Rh. petersi</emphasis>
|
||
(1878) is
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFCA841F724FA808CACFA34" box="[2183,2948,1341,1436]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="98">Rh. acuminatus’,</emphasis>
|
||
(3) Dobson’s
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFCA841FD38FA168357F9A2" box="[667,1151,1451,1546]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="98">Rh. petersi</emphasis>
|
||
(1880) is
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFCA841F922FA168EA0F9A2" box="[1665,2440,1451,1546]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="98">Rh. sttmairanus;</emphasis>
|
||
(4) Hutton’s
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFCA841F390FA16893FF9A2" box="[3123,3607,1451,1546]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="98">1th. petersi</emphasis>
|
||
is
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFCA841FD5EF9AE8264F9DA" authorityName="Andersen" authorityYear="1905" box="[765,1356,1555,1650]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="23" pageNumber="98" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="monticola">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFCA841FD5EF9AE8264F9DA" box="[765,1356,1555,1650]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="98">Rh. monticola</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
; (5) Blanford’s
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFCA841F79EF9AE8D3AF9DA" box="[2109,2578,1555,1650]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="98">Rh. petersi</emphasis>
|
||
is partly
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFCA841F46AF9AE8932F9DA" box="[3017,3610,1555,1650]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="98">Rh. monticela</emphasis>
|
||
(
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFCA841FD1BF938832FF94C" bold="true" box="[696,1031,1669,1764]" pageId="23" pageNumber="98">Masuri</emphasis>
|
||
), partly
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFCA841FA2EF938801EF94C" authorityName="Temm." box="[1421,1846,1669,1764]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="23" pageNumber="100" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rouxi">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFCA841FA2EF938801EF94C" box="[1421,1846,1669,1764]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="98">Rh. rouXi</emphasis>
|
||
</taxonomicName>
|
||
(Nilghiri).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection id="C3776570FFFCA841FCA4F9568EFDF812" pageId="23" pageNumber="98" type="distribution">
|
||
<paragraph id="8BD236FBFFFCA841FCA4F9568EFDF812" blockId="23.[650,3610,581,1987]" pageId="23" pageNumber="98">
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFCA841FCA4F956816AF8E2" box="[775,1602,1771,1866]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="98">Geographical races.</emphasis>
|
||
There are, at least, two forms of
|
||
<emphasis id="B919EAE9FFFCA841F3F4F956893DF8E2" box="[3159,3605,1771,1866]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="98">
|
||
<taxonomicName id="4C6D4D78FFFCA841F3F4F956892EF8E2" authorityName="Temm." box="[3159,3590,1771,1866]" class="Mammalia" family="Rhinolophidae" genus="Rhinolophus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Chiroptera" pageId="23" pageNumber="100" phylum="Chordata" rank="species" species="rouxi">Rh. rouXi</taxonomicName>
|
||
,
|
||
</emphasis>
|
||
differing in size and geographical habitat.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
</treatment>
|
||
</document> |