ART. 19 BATS OF THE GENUS TADARIDA — SHAMEL 9 



Type locality. — Governor's Harbor, Eleuthera, Bahamas. Type 

 specimen in the collection of the School of Biology, University of 

 Pennsylvania. 



Geographic distribution. — Bahama Islands, Eleuthera Island, Long 

 Island, and Little Abaco Island. 



Diagnosis. — Size largest of the West Indian forms; forearm 40.0- 

 43.6 mm., usually, 41.0 mm. or over; length of tibia, 12.0-12.8 mm., 

 usually over 12.0 mm.; length of skull, 16.5-16.8 mm.; color Ughter, 

 about Verona Brown (Ridgway, 1912). 



Measurements. — For detailed measurements see tables, pages 20 

 and 25. 



Specimens examined. — Eighty-five specimens, all alcohohcs, except 

 five skins, from Clarence Harbor, Long Island, Bahama Islands. 



TADARIDA MUSCULA (Gundlach) 



1840. Rhinopoma carolinensis Gundlach (not Geoffrey), Wiegm. Archiv., vol. 1, 



p. 358 

 1861. Nyctinomus musculus Gundlach, Monatsber, k. preuss. Akad. Wissensch. 



Berlin, p. 149 

 1924. Tadarida muscula Miller, N. Amer. Recent Mammals 1923, Bull, U. S, 



Nat. Mus. 128, p. 86, April 29, 1924. 



Type locality. — Cuba. Mr. Miller, while in the Berlin Museum in 

 1904 found six specimens of T. muscula. A mounted specimen and 

 a bottle containing four in alcohol were marked type. Measurements 

 taken at that time of an adult male in alcohol are as follows: Total 

 length, 85; tail, 31; tibia, 10.4; foot, 7; forearm, 38; ear from meatus, 

 16; ear from crown, 13. 



Geographic distribution. — Cuba. 



Diagnosis. — This bat is separable from T. bahamensis by its shorter 

 tibia, 11.0-12.2 mm. as against 12.0-12.8 mm., and its darker color. 

 From T. murina by its longer ear, 16.2-17.5 mm. as against 15.0-16.2 

 mm., and its average shorter forearm. From T. constanzae by its 

 average shorter forearm, 38.2-41.2 mm. as against 41.0-43.0 mm. 



Measurements. — For detailed measurements see tables, pages 20 

 and 26. 



Specimens examined. — Twenty-three from the Island of Cuba, in- 

 cluding 16 alcoholics and 7 skins. 



TADARIDA MURINA (Gray) 



1827. Nyctinomus murinus Gray, Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, GriflBth edition, 



vol. 5, p. 66 

 1861, Nyctinomus nasutus Tomes, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, pp. 68-69, 1861. 



(Not of Spix, 1823). 

 1878. Nyctinomus brasiliensis Dobson, Catal. Chiropt. Brit. Mus., pp. 437-439 



(part). 

 1911. Nyctinomus brasiliensis musculus G. M. Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 



vol. 59, p. 244, July, 1911. 

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