310 Cincinnati Society of Natural History. 



of the Buffalo in Ohio about one hundred years ago, is attested by 

 various authorities,* the latest record I have been able to find being 

 that of Hildreth, who states that several were killed near Marietta in 

 1792. It is somewhat remarkable that its remains have never been 

 found along with those of the various other extirpated species, in the 

 Madisonville ancient cemetery, which is believed to date back from 

 three to six hundred years or more. 



Order Chiroptera : The Bats, 



Family Vespertilionid^ : The Ordinary Bats. 



3. CoRYNORHiNus MACROTis (LcC.) Alien. — Big-eared Bat. — 

 Southern United States. 



4. Atalapha CREPuscuLARis (LeC.) Coues, — Tioilight Bat. — Penn- 

 sylvania and Missouri, to Georgia and Texas. 



5. Vespertilio georgianus, F. Cuvier. — Georgian Bat. — Maine 

 and Missouri to Texas. 



6. Vespertilio noctivagans, LeConte. — Silver Black Bat. — North 

 America. 



Order Insectivora : The Insect-eaters. 



Family Talpid^ : The Moles. 



19a. ScALOPS AQUATicus ARGENTATUS (Aud. and Bach.) Coues. — 

 Prairie or Silvery Mole. 



7. CoNDYLURA CRiSTATA, Demarcst. — Star-nosed Mole. — The 

 capture of this species at Cleveland, Ohio, and at Meadville, Pa.,f 

 renders its occurrence in this vicinit}^ quite probable. 



Family Soricid^ : The Shreivs. 



8. SoREX PLATYRHiNus, Wagucr. — " Commoii'^ Shrew. — Specimen 

 recorded from Cleveland, Ohio.;|; 



Order Rodentia : Rodents. * 



Family Zapodid^e : Jumping Mice. 



9. Zapus hudsonius, Coues. — Jumping Mouse. — Northern United 



* Vide Atwator "History of Ohio," p. 67; Hildreth "Pioneer History" (of the) "Ohio 

 VaUey," p. 496; Taylor " History of the State of Ohi.'," p. 88; Col. James Smith, in Drake's 

 "Indian t^aptivities," p. 189: etal. 



t Vide Baird, in Mammals of Xorth America (P. R. II. Survey, vol. viii.) pp. 74-75. 



X lUd.^ p. 26. 



