TENNESSEE MAMMALS — KELLOGG 257 



LASIURUS CINEREUS (Beauvois): Hoary Bat 



Rhoads (1896, p. 203) concluded that the hoary bat "is likely to 

 occur either as a migrant or resident anywhere east of the Cumber- 

 land Plateau." 



NYCTICEIUS HUMERALIS (Rafinesque): Evening, or Rafinesque's, Bat 



The recorded occurrences of this bat in the State are all west of the- 

 southern Allegheny Mountains. The evening bat begins to hunt con- 

 siderably before dark and may be recognized by its rather slow and 

 steady flight. G. A. Coleman collected a number of individuals dur- 

 ing June 1892 in an open space near the creek and along the railroad 

 tracks at Big Sandy, as well as in the open woods near Arlington. 

 Rhoads (1896, p. 204) refers to specimens of this bat taken in Hick- 

 man County by J. T. Park during August and Sei)tember. 



Benton County: Big Sandy, 14. 



Hickman County: Warner, 1 ; Hickman County : 1. 



Houston County: Danville, 1. 



Shelby County: Arlington, 4. 



CORYNORHINUS MACROTIS (LeConte): LeConte's Lump-nosed, or 



Big-eared, Bat 



Arthur Stupka, park naturalist. Great Smoky Mountains National 

 Park, lent eight specimens from Cades Cove, I4I/2 miles southeast of 

 Maryville, Blount County (altitude 1,750 feet). Of these one was 

 a female collected at Cades Cove on September 12, 1936, and the 

 remainder, four males and three females, were taken at the Cades 

 Cove C. C. C. camp schoolhouse on July 12-15, 1937. This bat has 

 been taken also in Sevier County at Gatlinburg and Greenbrier 

 (Komarek and Komarek, 1938, p. 148). 



The lump-nosed bat may occur in middle Tennessee, since it has 

 been recorded by Howell (1921, p. 28) near the northern boundary 

 line of Alabama at Huntsville, Madison County, and by Miller (1897, 

 p. 52) at Bowling Green, Warren County, Ky. 



Family URSIDAE 

 URSUS AMERICANUS AMERICANUS Pallas: Black Bear 



Black bears appear to have ranged over all Tennessee in early 

 times, but they have since been exterminated in many sections. No 

 skulls are available for examination, and this makes it impossible 

 to say whether the Florida black bear {Ursus flondanus) formerly 

 occurred in the southern parts of the State. 



The Virginia trader Abraham Wood sent James Needham and 

 Gabriell Arthur in 1673 to the Cherokee Indian town Cota, located 



