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respectively, are of more restricted distribution, from the humid 

 northwest coast eastward across the Great Basin and southward into 

 Mexico. 



The name suhidattts has been almost universally misapplied to the 

 eastern long-eared Myotis, an animal which should be known as 

 My Otis keenii septentrionalis. (See p. 107.) 



MYOTIS SUBULATUS SUBULATUS (Say) 



Veapertilio suhulatus Say, Long's Exped. to Rocky Mts., vol. 2, p. 65 (footnote), 

 1823 (not of LeConte, 1855, = lucifugus, or Harrison Allen, 1864, = keenii). 



Vespertilio ciliolahrum Mereiam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 4, p. 2, 

 December 17, 1886 (near Banner, Trego County, Kans.). 



Vespertilio nitidus ciliolabrum H. Allen, Monogr. Bats North Amer., Bull. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus., No. 43 (1893), p. 101, March 14, 1894 (part).— Teouessabt, 

 Catal. Mamm. viv. foss., p. 130, 1897. 



Myotis caUfomicus ciliolabrum Miller, North Amer. Fauna, No. 13, p. 72, 

 October 16, 1897 (part). — Elliot, Synops. Mamm. North Amer., Field 

 Columb. Mus., publ. 45. zool. ser., vol. 2, p. 404, March, 1901 ; List Land 

 and Sea Mamm. North Amer., Field Columb. Mus., publ. 57, zool. ser., 

 vol. 2, p. 517, June. 1901. — Millek and Rehn, Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., 

 vol. 30, p. 257, December 27, 1901. — Trouessart, Catal. Mamm. viv. foss., 

 suppl , p. 93, 1904. — Elliot, Check List Mamm. North Amer., Field Columb. 

 Mus., publ. 105, zool, ser., vol. 6, p. 477, 1905 (part). — Warren, Mamm. 

 of Colorado, p. 275, 1910 (part).— Cary, North Amer. Fauna, No. 33, p. 

 209, August 17, 1911 (part). — Miller, List North Amer. Land Mamm. 

 1911, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 79, p. 57, December 31, 1912; List North 

 Amer. Recent Mamm. 1923, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 128, p. 71, April 

 29, 1924. 



Myotls subulatus Warren, Mammals of Colorado, p. 275, 1910. — Cary, North 

 Amer. Fauna, No. 33, p. 206, August 17, 1911 (not of Miller, 1897, and 

 most subsequent writers). 



Type locality. — On the Arkansas Eiver near present town of La 

 Junta, Otero County, southeastern Colorado. 



Type specimen. — All trace of the type specimen has been lost. 



Distribution. — Arid plains and eastern Rocky Mountain region 

 from Kansas and southeastern Colorado north to Montana. (See 

 map 12, p. 165.) 



Diagnosis. — A pale subspecies, flaxen above and often nearly white 

 below. 



Color. — General color of upper parts ranging from " light buff " 

 to " warm buff " with a slight tricolor effect when the hairs are parted 

 so that their paler intermediate portions are seen in contrast with 

 their blackish bases and flaxen tips. The top of the head and the 

 bases of the outer part of the ears are almost whitish, but with a 

 buffy tinge. Muzzle, chin, ears and tragus blackish, the sides of 

 the face from muzzle to ears, blackish brown. The under surface 

 is a very pale buff, becoming nearly white in some individuals : bases 

 of the hairs blackish except at the extreme posterior region of the 

 body. 



