Allen — Notes on Bahama Bats. 67 



Vespertilio fuscus bahamensis Miller. 



Vespn-tiliofuscus bah<imi'nt!!{< Miller. North Amer. Fauna, No. 13, \^. 101 , figs. 

 L'4 h, 25 h, 2() b. Oct. 1 (5, 1897. 



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

 ground chambers of old Foi't 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 fiirther 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). 



Akdapha l)orealls seminola Rhoads. Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1895, p. 32. 

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



16, 1897. 

 ? Lasirirus borealix pfeijferi (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 tlien car'efully compared with specimens 

 of L. b. 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. b. pfeiferi. Our speci- 

 men, however, seems referable to the Florida form. 



Nyctinomus bahamensis Rehn. 



Nyctinomus bahamensis 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 fi-om the islands of Eieuthera 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 



