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ORDER CHIROPTERA. 

 FAM. VESPERTILIONID.E. 



LASIURUS. 

 Lasiurus borealis. 



Lasiurus borealis. (Mull.,) Naturg. , Suppl., 1776, p. 21. 

 One specimen, Catawba, South Carolina. 

 This was the only bat seen north of Florida. 



NYCTINOMUS. 

 Nyctinomus brasiliensis. 



Nyctinomus brasiliensis. Geoff., Am. Scien. Nat., i, 1824, 



P- 337- 



Twenty-six specimens, Enterprise, Florida. 



Mr. Surber's account of the capture of these examples is as 

 follows: 



"At the home of Mr. Otto H. Voss, near Enterprise, quite a 

 colony of these bats had taken up their residence in the boxing 

 underneath a martin box erected on a tall pole, and had been 

 domiciled there about two years when I made a raid on them in 

 January, securing fifteen specimens. Probably more on account 

 of the odor than anything else, for it was almost sickening in its 

 intensity, they had driven away the martins the year before, and 

 though none were in the martin house proper, they had full pos- 

 session. A portion of the colony was left undisturbed, but they 

 shortly afterwards deserted the place, and on my return to Enter- 

 prise, in March, Mr. Voss informed me he hadn't seen any for 

 some time. On this second visit to Enterprise, late one after- 

 noon, I saw issuing from a shutter in the upper story of the large 

 building in which the postoffice is now located, several bats, 

 and on investigating the matter next day I found, clinging to the 

 inside of the darkened shutter next to the window sash, eleven 

 more Specimens of this same species which I easily secured with 

 my hands. They are the only bats I saw anywhere in Florida." 



