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examined, a female from Guadeloupe that may at one time have 

 been immersed in spirits, fall near the average for the Dominican 

 series except in green and blue values of the ventral pelage, which are 

 at the lower (darker) end of the observed variation. 



The female holotype (Thomas, 1891, pp. 529-530) and a male listed 

 by Miller (1902, pp. 407-408) are the only two specimens of the sub- 



Figure 3. — Distribution of subspecies of Ardops nichollsi in the Lesser Antilles (north to 

 south): A.n. montserratensis (St. Eustatius and Montserrat); A.n. annectens (Guadeloupe); 

 A.n. nicholLi (Dominica); A.n. koopmani (Martinique); A.n. luciae (St. Lucia and St. 

 Vincent). 



species A. n. nichollsi reported previously. Of the remaining 14 indi- 

 viduals examined, we have information concerning the circumstances 

 of capture of 13, all of which were taken in mist nets — one in 1962, 

 one in 1964, and 11 in 1966. At Clarke Hall Estate one bat was 

 trapped in a net (in which Artibeus, Monophyllus, and Myotis also 

 were taken) stretched over a trail bordered by trees and a cacao 



