NOTES ON AUSTRALIAN MAMMALS. 

 No. 1. 



I'.Y 



Ellis Le G. Ti;ou(;hton, 

 As.si.-stMiit ill c'liai'L^^L' i»t' Maniiiiiil.s, Australian Miim-uiii. 



(Figures 1-6). 



The t'ullowiiicT nott's leci^ril extensions in tlie range of two An.slralian 

 nuimnials, together with reniaiks on a lesting place ol: the " Little Bat," 

 Uljtesicus puDiiltta, Gray, and an extended descrijjtiou t)f tlie "Allied Hal," 

 EpiiHi/s assiniilis, Gould. 



I wisli to express my thank.s to my colleague, Mr. J. R. Kingliorn 

 who kindly prepared the accompanying figures, and Mr. A. R. McCulloch 

 for his helpful advice since handing over the Dej)artmeut of Mammals to 

 my charge and during the preparation of this papei". 



Family VESPERTILIONID^. 



Cii.\LiNOLOnus .MOi;io, (JrKji, and Eptksicus rn.MiU's, Unn/, 



The oidy indigenous mammal hilhertcj listed from Lord HoAve Island 

 is the bat recorded by Etheridge^ as ( 'linJIiinlobn.t morlo, Gray. His i-ecord 

 was based upon a single specimen collected by his parly in 1889, and 

 which does not appear to have been presei'ved, since it cannot now be 

 found although 1 have searched caiefully through tlie Microchiroptera iu 

 the collection of the Australian Museum. As ClinHinilohun tuorio is found 

 in both New Zealand and Australia, however, it probably occurs at the 

 intermediate locality, Lord Howe Island. 



After carefully comparing a series of six bats in the Australian 

 Museum collection from Loid Howe Island, which do not differ fiom a 

 large series of I'Jpteficiif^ juuuilns, Gray-, from various localities in 

 Austialia, 1 am able to definitely record the occuri'ence of thi.s species on 

 the island. 



It may be iioted here tliat, on a recent expedition in South Australia 

 I collected two si)ecimens of EiitcKiriis jnoiillna from Tulka, near Proper 

 Ray, which is eight miles from Port Lincoln on Eyre'.s Peninsula. Roth 

 specimens wei'e found under the loose bark of the native " She Oak " 

 (Casiuiriii'i ijliiura or ^iihuroHn), about six feet above the ground, and not fai' 

 from a roail bordered by blossoming tiees whicli provided a surfeit of 

 insect-food. When tinished hunting the bats appaiently sought sheltei- 

 on tieps of which the bark curled out sufficiently loosely from the tiunk 



' Etlicriil-jfe — Mem. Aii-lr. Miis. , ii.. 1,SH<», j.. (l. 

 -' Vide (juuld — Maiinii. Au^tr., iii., lH(i;{, ]il. xlvi. 



