MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGY. ' 175 



the Museum of Comparative Zoology from ITayti, collected by Mr. P. R, 

 1'lik-r. have been identified by Dr. Harrison Allen as of this species. 



19. Megadermatidse Sp. ? 

 A large species of bat was noticed by both Mr. Maynard and my- 

 self, but as it always flew very high, neither of us obtained it. It 

 was very much larger than any other species yet described from the 

 United States, and is doubtless a AVest Indian form ; probably a spe- 

 cies of Mefjadermatidee. 



SORECID.E. 



20. Blarina brevicauda Baird. Mole SnfcE-w. 

 Sori '■ brevicaudus Say, Long's Expcd , I, 164, 1862-63. 

 Soi;ex parvus Say, Ibid., 164. 



Sfirex taipoides Gapper, Zool Journ., V, 20S, pi. viii, 1830. 

 Sorex car.olinensis Bach., Journ. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., VII, 366, pi. x.wi, 



tig. 3, 1837. 

 Sorex cinereits Bach., Ibid., 373, fig. 3. 

 Surex Dekoyi Bach., Ibid., 377, fig. 4. 



rira (Blarina) talpoides Gray, Proc Lend. Zool. Soc, V, 124, 1837. 

 Blarina brevicauda Baird, Mam. N. Am., 42, pi. xxx, fig 6, 1 S 3 " . — Allex, 



Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., I, 212. October, 1 -< l. 

 Blarina taljmides Baird, Mam. X. Am., 37. pi. xxx, fig 5. 

 Blarina carolinensis Baird, Ibid., 45, pi. xxx, fig. 8. 

 Blarina cinerea Baird, Ibid., 4S, pi. xxx, tigs. 9 and 10, young. 

 Blarina erilipes Baird, Ibid., 51, pi. xxviii, young. 

 Blarina Berlandieri Baird, Ibid., 53, pi. xxviii, young. 



A single specimen of Blarina from Indian River, Florida, collected 

 by Mr. G. Wurdemann, is mentioned under '•Blarina cinerea" by Pro- 

 fessor Baird, as having been received at the Smithsonian Institution.* 

 While it may be of a species distinct from B. brevicauda, it seems more 

 probable that it is the young of that species, as 1 have elsewhere stated. t 

 Sorex cinereus of Bachman,J which Professor Baird cites as a synonyme 

 of his Blarina cinerea, Dr. Baehman subsequently regarded as the 

 young of his S. carolinensis,^ which is the same as B. talpoides et bre- 

 vicauda of* recent writers. 



* North American Mammals, p. 50 



t Bull. Mus. Com. Zool., Vol. I. No. 8, p. 212. 



I Journ. Phil Acad. Nat. Sri.. Vol. VII. 1837, p 373, nl. xxiii, fig. 3. 



^'Quadrupeds vf North America, Vol. Ill, p. 344. 



