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55. Adelonycteris fusca (Pal.de Beauv.). Large Brown Bat. 



Everywhere abundant, except on the heavier wooded mountain 

 summits. 



56. Vesperugo carolinensis (Is. Geoff. St. Hil.). Carolina Bat. 



Rare in central Pennsylvania. Probably confined to the regions 

 southeast of the Blue Ridge. Prof. Baird secured a specimen, now 

 in the Smithsonian Institution, from Carlisle. 



57. Lasionyoteris noctivagans (LeC). Silvery Bat. 

 Numerously distributed over the entire region. 



58. Nycticejus humeralis 0. Thos. Twilight Bat. 



The only record of this southern species known to me is a speci- 

 men taken at Carlisle by Prof. Baird. 



59. Atalapha borealis (Mull.). Red Bat. 

 An abundant species. 



60. Atalapha cinerea (Pal. de Beauv.). Hoary Bat. 



This large bat is little known to the mountaineers, so far as my 

 inquiries have gone. I have never seen a specimen in life. One taken 

 near Renovo, Clinton County, is in the collection of A. K. Pierce, of 

 that borough. From its known range in the United States and Canada 

 it is more likely to be found in middle than in eastern Pennsylvania, 

 from which latter region I have seen and heard of several examples. 



61. Homo sapiens americanus. Aboriginal American Indian. 



Central Pennsylvania at the time of Penn's coming (1682) was 

 inhabited by tribes of Iroquoian linguistic stock, as distinguished 

 from the Algonquin Lenape of east Pennsylvania. The Susquehan- 

 nocks (Minquas, Conestogas or Andastes) holding originally the 

 main Susquehanna River valley, conquered by the Senecas about 

 1670, and finally reduced to a remnant, were exterminated near 

 Lancaster by the" Paxton boys," December 27, 1763. Subsequently 

 the Six Nation Onondagas, Cayugas, Oneidas, Senecas, Mohawks 

 and Tuscaroras roamed over the former possession of the Susque- 

 hannocks, and sold it to the whites, thus relinquishing Adams, 

 Franklin, Cumberland and York Counties in 1763, Perry, Juniata, 

 Snyder, Huntingdon, Blair, Bedford and Fulton in 1758, Northum- 

 berland, Union, Montour, Lycoming, Clinton, Centre, Clearfield, 

 Cambria and Somerset in 1768, and Bradford, Tioga, Potter, Mc- 

 Kean and Elk in 1784. 



