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hour after sundown. The following table is calculated to 

 illustrate the above remarks: 



Times of Evening Appearances of 'Atalapha cinerea' [Hoary-bat] at Locust 

 Grove, N. Y., at Different Dates in 1883. 



In Manitoba the den or lurking place of this species is lurk- 

 among the thickest boughs of a spruce top. Whether it place 

 ever frequents caves or hollow trees when available I can- 

 not say. 



A specimen which I took near Carberry, August 21, 1883, voice 

 bit viciously and screamed aloud, in the style of the Little 

 Brown-bats, but in deeper, stronger tones. 



I cannot learn that any one ever saw a great number of unsoci- 

 these Bats in one lurking place. The smaller species may gather 

 in crowds at a convenient shelter nook, yet this, the king of the 

 northern kinds, is, so far as known, solitary at all times save 

 the breeding season. 



Concerning its mating in the Adirondack region. Dr. rut 

 Merriam says :* " That the species ruts about the i st of August 

 there can be no reasonable doubt, for I saw more of them from 

 the 30th of July till the 6th of August [1883] than I have seen in 

 all before and since, and 12 adult specimens killed during 

 that brief period were all males. They were not feeding, but 

 were rushing wildly about, evidently in search of the females. 

 Many flew so high as to be entirely out of range, though directly 

 overhead." 



•Mam. Adir., 1884, p. 179. 



