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Vespertilio fuscus bahamensis Miller. 



Vespertilio fuscus bahamensis Miller. North Amer. Fauna, No. 13, p. 101 , figs. 

 246,256,266. Oct. 16, 1897. 



On June 29 we discovered a small colony of these bats in one of the under 

 ground chambers of old Fort Charlotte, at Nassau, New Providence. This 

 is the type-locality for the subspecies, and we did not meet with it else 

 where. The bats were clustered in a cone-shaped cavity in the ceiling 

 where the limestone rock of the dungeon had become broken away. They 

 were not at all inclined to leave their retreat, but when disturbed simply 

 endeavored to crawl still farther back into the cleft. By placing a net 

 over the opening of this cavity we were able to dislodge a number into it 

 with the aid of a pole. Of the 24 specimens preserved, 8 are adult males 

 and 4 are adult females, 4 are young males and 8 are young females. 



Lasiurus borealis seminolus (Rhoads). 



Atalapha borealis seminola Rhoads. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1895, p. 32. 

 Lasiurus borealis seminolus Miller. North Amer. Fauna, No. 13, p. 109, Oct. 



16, 1897. 

 ? Lasiurus borealis pfeifferi (Gundlach) Miller. North Amer. Fauna, No. 13, 



p. 110, Oct. 16, 1897, Part. 



A single female specimen of the Red Bat was captured by Mr. Bryant in 

 the first week of August, at Nassau, where it had flown into a dwelling-house. 

 The specimen was skinned out from alcohol after a two months' immer 

 sion and both skin and skull were then carefully compared with specimens 

 of L. 6. seminolus from Enterprise, Fla. The Bahama specimen is practi 

 cally indistinguishable in color and proportions from the small, mahogany- 

 red Florida race, and the skulls of the two also agree. When Mr. Miller 

 wrote his Review of the Vespertilionidae of North America, he had but a 

 single skull of the Red Bat from the Bahamas. This skull (from Nassau) 

 he referred doubtfully to the Cuban subspecies, L. 6. pfeifferi. Our speci 

 men, however, seems referable to the Florida form. 



Nyctinomus bahamensis Rehn. 

 Nyctinomus baJiamensis Rehn. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1902, p. 641. 



This bat was recently described by Mr. J. A. G. Rehn on the basis of 

 specimens from the islands of Eleuthera and Little Abaco. We found a 

 large colony at the latter island and a second at Marsh Harbor, on Great 

 Abaco. In both these cases the bats had established themselves in build 

 ings used as stores and roofed with fluted sheets of galvanized iron. The 

 fluting offered small holes for entrance to the space left between 

 the sheathing and the exterior of the building, and here the little creatures 



