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versatile Dr. Turton had ever assigned to the fauna of the New World. 

 The edition of Linnaeus, by Dr. Turton, alluded to by Ord, was in all 

 probability that of 1806, from which Prof. Baird and Dr. Coues make 

 their references. The earlier edition of 1802, I presume has been over- 

 looked by these writers, a fact to be regretted, as the original names and 

 descriptions of all the mammals ascribed by them to Turton's edition of 

 1806 were published prior to that date. 



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 GENUS VESPERTILIO. 



"New York Bat Vespertilio noveboracensis." The synonymy of this 

 species is essentially as follows : 



New York Bat ; Pennant, Syn. Quad., 1771, 367. 



Vespertilio borealis P. L. S. Miiller, (Der Neujorker), Natursys. Suppl., 



1776, (NO. 2l), 21. 



Vespertilio noveboracensis Erxleben, Syst. Regn. Anim., 1777, (No. 14), 



155- 



Atalapha americana Rafinesque, Precis des descouvertes, 1814, 12. 



Atalapha noveboracensis Peters, M. B. Akad. Berl., 1870, 908. 



Atalapha borealis (Mull), (vid. infra.). 



Priority for the naming of the New York or Red Bat has been long 

 accorded to Erxleben, as cited above. I am unable find any reason for 

 discarding the name "dorealis" given this species by Miiller in the 

 Supplement to his edition of the Systema Naturae. This earlier name 

 is cited by Erxleben as a synomym ; but why he gave the New York 

 Bat of Pennant another name does not appear. 



Miiller's name preoccupies the Vespertilio borealis of Nillson (Ilium 

 Fig. Scand. Faun, haft., 19; pi. 36-1838). Nillson's animal will have to 

 stand as Vesperugo -willsoni Keys. & Bias., Wiegm. Archiv. , 1839,315. 



"BLACK BAT VESPERTILIO AMERICANUS." Ord probably refers to the 

 Silver Black Bat of Leconte, Lasionycteris noctivagans (Cuv. An. King., 

 McMurtrie ed. 1831, Vol. I., App., 431). The absence of any reference to 

 indicate this makes it questionable. In any event Ord's binomial is 

 antedated by the Vespertilio americanus of Turton (Syst. Nat., 1802, 27), 

 who gives it no English name. His characters for it are utterly worth- 

 less, viz.: "Very large, with long straggling hairs, ears large." No 

 habitat is given. Ord certainly did not mean to refer to this as his 

 Black Bat, nor can the latter term apply to the Noctilio americanus 

 (N. lepotinus] of the tenth and twelfth editions of Linnaeus. 



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"Brown Bat Vespertilio fuschs." Palis, de Beauv., Cat. Peale'sMus.,Phila., 

 1796, \\.= Vesperugo serotinus Juscus Dobs., Cat. Chir., 1878, 192.= 

 Adelonycterisfuscus H. Allen, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1892. 



"Hang-lip Bat Vespertilio labialis." Turton in his first (1802) edition of 

 Linnaeus separates this as a species from the Vespettilio (Noctilio) 



