208 SUPPLEMENT. 
example among the Bats belonging to the collection of the Gottingen Museum, which 
is labelled as being from Popayan, an elevated locality in the Andes, 6000 feet above 
the sea-level. Mr. Dobson remarks that this specimen has only “ faintly marked facial 
streaks, and a very narrow white line in the fur along the lower half of the spine. 
This shows that the white streaks are as variable in this species as I have already 
noticed in the case of Artibeus planirostris (Catal. Chirop. Br. Mus. p. 516). The 
important structural characters on which the species depends are, however, as well 
marked [as] in the only specimen hitherto known (the type in the collection of the 
British Museum), which was collected by Mr. Salvin in Costa Rica, and named by me 
after the discoverer” *, 
[Sturnira lilium (p. 50). 
This somewhat common Bat has not been hitherto recorded north of Guatemala and 
Honduras; but Mr. F. Gaumer has recently sent to Messrs. Godman and Salvin, 
through M. Boucard, a specimen obtained by him in 1880, in Northern Yucatan, 
showing a considerable extension of its northward range.—O. T.] 
(N.) Blarina berlandieri. 
Blarina berlandert, Baird, Mamm. N. Am. p. 53 (1857, descr. orig.)*; Rep. U.S. Mex. Bound. 
Surv. nu. Mamm. p. 5’. 
Hab. Mexico, Matamoras (Couch, U.S. Nat. Mus.1), Tlalpam (Geddes, Mus. Brit.). 
As already observed (above, p. 57), Dr. Coues has expressed some doubt as to the 
specific distinction of Berlandier’s Shrew from the Blarina micrura of Guatemala and 
Costa Rica and the B. exilipes of Texas. The comparison of large suites of specimens will 
be necessary before deciding on the relationship of these forms, of which B. berlandieri 
appears to agree with B. micrura in size and proportions, but to differ in coloration, 
the lower parts being yellowish white instead of dull grey as in the southern form. 
Professor Baird’s type specimens were from Matamoras, and formed part of Ber- 
landier’s collections, which were secured by Lieut. Couch for the National Museum at 
Washington!. An example, which agrees well with the descriptions of B. berlandieri, 
has been lately received by the British Museum from Mr. P. Geddes, and is labelled as 
having been obtained at an elevation of 7000 feet, at Tlalpam, near the city of Mexico. 
[Procyon cancrivorus’? (p. 69). 
A Raccoon precisely agreeing with the Veraguan specimen of P. cancrivorus men- 
tioned above by Mr. Alston has been obtained by Mr. Forrer in the Tres Marias 
Islands. The occurrence of this, the southern species, in these islands, 2000 miles 
north of the most northern locality hitherto known for it, is particularly interesting as 
* P.Z.8. 1880, p. 465; Rep. Brit. Assoc. 1880, p. 197. 
T Not crancrivorus, as accidentally printed above. 
