191 0] WarS, Brown Bat in Wisconsin. 181 



the state as its known range is, according to Miller 4 , "Austral, 

 Transition and (lower edge of) Boreal zones throughout the 

 United States and adjoining British provinces." 



In the range map (No. 66) of the species published by Seton 5 

 we find Wisconsin well within the area of the species as depicted 

 but no actual records are plotted for Wisconsin or the surround- 

 ing states of Minnesota, Iowa or Michigan. In Illinois there are 

 plotted, near the eastern and western borders of the state, what 

 presumably are Miller's 4 records of Illinois: "Richland County, 

 i ; Warsaw, 4." 



Herrick 6 includes the species in his Minnesota list but the 

 nearest that he comes to giving a record is the statement : '"The 

 following description will apply to a male captured early in June, 

 and will illustrate the typical condition of the species in Min- 

 nesota." 



Apparently there are no definite records for Minnesota, Wis- 

 consin or Michigan and with the common knowledge that this bat 

 should occur in Wisconsin it affords pleasure to show by citing 

 seven specimens, six of them mounted and long on exhibition in 

 the Milwaukee Public Museum, but apparently overlooked by 

 both Jackson and Hollister, that there has been no invidious dis- 

 crimination against this state. 



Three specimens, two females and a male, Nos. 93, 94 and 95 

 of the Museum's collections were taken at the abandoned vaults 

 of the old Falk Brewery in Milwaukee in January, 1897, by Dr. 

 E. H. Neymann, D. Otteson and O. Boscowitz. On Jan. 18, 1898, 

 the same gentlemen also took specimens recorded as Nos. 85 and 

 86, and on Feb. 6, 1898, a male, No. 84. On Dec. 18, 1907, Mr. 

 A. N. Fairchild presented a specimen to the museum, No. 1450. 



I believe that I have several times when collecting seen the 

 species flying in various parts of northern Wisconsin, as well as 

 about the streets of Milwaukee ; but have so far failed to collect it. 

 Seton 5 , p. 1182, writes: "In the Museum of the Geological Sur- 

 vey at Ottawa, is a specimen found dormant behind a window of 



4) Miller Gerrit S., "Revision of the North American Bats of the 

 Family Vespertilionidfe," North American Fauna No. 13, 189 1. 



5) Seton, Ernest Thompson, "Life Histories of Northern Animals, 

 An Account of the Mammals of Manitoba," Scribner s Sons 1909. 



6) Herrick, C. L., "The Mammals of Minnesota," Bull. No. 17, Creoi. 

 and Nat. Hist. Survey of Minn., p. 34. 



