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Cuba and Hispaniola are so slight and depend so much on original 

 treatment and later storage of specimens that we cannot justify the 

 retention of M.c. ferreus as a valid subspecies on this basis. 



As Miller noted, the Cuban and Haitian populations do not differ 

 in mensural characters. We have available external measurements for 

 only three Haitian specimens and cranial measurements for only 

 four. Although total length indicates a complete dichotomy between 

 Cuban and Hispaniolan specimens (63-70 in Cuba, 59 and 60 in 

 Hispaniola), these data are unreliable because of the small Haitian 

 sample. Extremes of length of forearm for 24 Hispaniolan specimens 

 (37.6-42.5) bracket those of 32 Cuban specimens (38.5-41.8). Cranial 

 measurements of the two populations show identical or similar means, 

 the greatest discrepancy being in length of maxillary toothrow (mean 

 7.8 in Hispaniola, 8.0 in Cuba). In the latter instance, there are data 

 for only nine Cuban and three Hispaniolan specimens. It is possible 

 that when additional Hispaniolan material becomes available, M. c. 

 ferreus can be shown to be a recognizable subspecies, but at this time 

 it appears neither identifiable nor nameworthy. 



The recently collected Haitian specimens were taken in a large 

 wet cave in a mesic situation in the Monts Cartaches massif; this cave 

 may well be the same place whence W. L. Abbott secured the holotype 

 and paratypes of M. c. ferreus in 1917. Miller (1904, p. 344) reported 

 that William Palmer found this bat abundant on Cuba at the type- 

 locality of M. cubanus, a damp cave; Palmer took not only Mono- 

 phyllus but also Natalus micropus, Mormoops blainvillei, Pteronotus 

 parnellii, Pteronotus macleayi, and Phyllonycteris poeyi at the entrance 

 of this same cave. Allen (1911, p. 231) cited Gundlach's records of 

 Monophyllus at Rangel in the Sierra del Rosario in Pinar del Rio 

 Province and at Guisa in eastern Cuba. Koopman and Ruibal (1955, 

 p. 3) reported fossil Monophyllus from a cave in the Sierra de Cubitas 

 in Camagiiey Province, Cuba, and Anthony (1919, p. 637) took a single 

 Monophyllus in a cave at Jarahueca, near Sabanilla, in Oriente 

 Province. In Haiti, Miller (1929, p. 8) recorded taking a skull from 

 owl pellet material at Diquini, Departement de l'Ouest, and Koop- 

 man (1955, p. 110) reported a single fragmentary skull from a cave 

 at Nan Cafe, He de la Gonave. Presumably this latter specimen is 

 referrable to M. r. clinedaphus although at least one chiropteran 

 species (Pteronotus parnellii) has an endemic subspecies on Gonave 

 (P. p. gonavensis) that differs from its mainland Hispaniolan relative 

 (P. p. pusillus). All the above records refer either to fossil or subfossil 

 finds in caves or to cave-taken living bats. Like M. r. redmani, M. r. 

 clinedaphus is a confirmed cave dweller. We have no data on weights 

 or parturition for M. r. clinedaphus. 



