22 Maynard on the Mammals of Florida. 



sonville, early in the winter, which I am confident was of 

 this species. This specimen was unfortunately lost. I have 

 since picked up a mutilated specimen in the streets of Jack- 

 sonville which was undoubtedly this species; thus the matter 

 of its occurrence in Florida is definitely settled. 



20. Artibeus perspiccilalune Maynard. Tailless 

 Leaf-nosed Bat. — While at Key West in the early winter of 

 1870, I observed several large Bats flying about the city, 

 which closely resembled in flight a species which I had 

 seen in northern Florida two years before, but which flew 

 so high that I was unable to shoot them. I was very anx- 

 ious to obtain a specimen, but as shooting was prohibited in 

 the streets of the city of Key West, an 1 as I never saw the 

 Bats elsewhere on the Island, feared that I should be obliged 

 to go away without one. I was, therefore, agreeably sur- 

 prised one morning to see a boy enter my room with a Bat 

 in his hand, which from its large size I knew could be no 

 other than the species which I had so long desired to obtain. 

 He said that he had found it hanging upon the leaf of a 

 tree and had killed it with a piece of limestone. It is a 

 Leaf-nosed Bat, and Dr. Harrison Allen has kindly identi- 

 fied it, from sketches sent to him, as the above species. 

 This is, I think, the first instance on record of a Bat of this 

 form being taken on the Atlantic slope. This species, with- 

 out doubt, inhabits the whole of Florida. They fly early 

 in the evening, often before sunset, and, as has been re- 

 marked, usually very high. 



None of the Bats of Florida appear to hibernate, or at 

 best they only remain quiet during an occasionally cold 

 night. 



21. Blarina brevicauda et talpoides Baird. Mole 

 Shrew. — I found a single specimen of this little species in 

 an unused cistern at Miami. I have never seen it elsewhere 

 in the state, although it probably occurs. 



