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(1904) states that in color the Cuban brown bat is practically identical 

 with the large Mexican miradorensis, to which he considers it most 

 closely related. Specimens of E. f. osceola, from southern Florida, 

 also approach it very closely in the rich dark brown of the fur. 



Eptesicus fuscus bahamensis (Miller). 



Vespertilio fuscus bahamensis Miller, N. Amer. Fauna, 1897, no. 13, 

 p. 101, fig. 26, b. 



The differences between the brown bat of the Bahamas and its 

 larger relative of the mainland were pointed out in 1890 by Dr. J. A. 

 Allen, but were not recognized by name until seven years later. In 

 color it seems practically indistinguishable from typical E. fuscus, 

 but in measurements it is nearly as small as propinquus of Central 

 America. The possibility of this bat being a derivative of propinquus, 

 and having reached the Bahamas from Central America by way of a 

 Jamaica-San Domingo connection has been previously suggested. 

 I can find no records for this species except from New Providence, 

 Bahamas, where it haunts the dungeon of old Fort Charlotte. 



Nycticeius humeralis cubanus (Gundlach). 



Vesperus cubanus Gundlach, Monatsb. k. preuss. Akad. Wiss. 

 Berlin, 1861, p. 150. 



The Cuban Nycticeius has been shown by Miller (1904, p. 338) 

 to be merely a small insular race of the species inhabiting the south- 

 eastern United States. As in the case of Eptesicus, it has no known 

 representatives in the other Greater Antilles or the Windward Islands. 

 Gundlach records it from Havana and Cardenas. 



Lasiurus [vel Nycteris] pfeifferi (Gundlach). 



Atalapha pfeifferi Gundlach, Monatsb. k. preuss. Akad. Wiss. 

 Berlin, 1861, p. 152. 



The Cuban red bat is apparently an uncommon species, as indeed 

 Gundlach remarks. It was not obtained by Palmer in 1900 and 1902. 

 In color it is said to be brighter than borealis of the continent, and 

 slightly larger, which suggests that its relationships may be with 

 Central American rather than with southern Florida stock. 



