OCT., 1899.] MA:\nrALS. 89 



Myotis lucifugus longicrus (True), 



At Wagon Camp, July 17, Walter K. Fislier shot one of these bats. 

 Small bats Avore abundant here, but kept so much in the forest that 

 they were hard to shoot. 



Myotis californicus (And. & Bach.). California Bat. 



A single specimen of this species, collected on Mount Shasta by C. H. 

 Townsend, is recorded by Miller in North American Fauna, No. 13, 

 page 71, October, 1S97. 



Myotis yumanensis saturatus ^Filler. 



Common among the ali)ine hendocks at Squaw Creek Camp, where 

 they were seen every inght, darting in and out of the flickering light 

 of the camp fire. Here I shot one the evening of August,'}, and four 

 the eveiung of August 9. Late in July and early in August small bats, 

 probably the same si:)ecies, were seen nearly every evening at the tem- 

 porary camps on or near upper Mud Creek. The species is interesting 

 as the only bat secured in the Hudsonian zone. 



Vespertilio fuscus Beauvois. Large Brown Bat. 



Common at Wagon Camp, where Vernon Ijailey shot one July 17, 

 and I shot three the evening of July 28. Many more could have been 

 killed if desired. In 1883 C. II. Townsend obtained it at Sheep Rock. 

 The species is one of the commonest in the foothills and valleys, and is 

 easily recognized on the wing by its large size and its character of flight. 



[Arctomys flaviventer (And. & Bach.). Mountain Marmot. 



It may be asserted with conlidence that no marmots of any kind live 

 on Shasta. Our collectors were at work on the mountain from July 15 

 until October without seeing a single individual. Moreover, when 

 Vernon Bailey and I made our trip completely around the peak the 

 latter part of July we kept near timberline all the way and made a 

 special search for marmots, but were unable to And a trace of their 

 presence.] 



SpermopMlus douglasi (Kichardson). Oregon Ground Scjuirrel. 



Common at Sisson and in ]McCloud and Shasta valleys, whence it 

 ranges up through the manzanita chaparral of the basal slopes nearly 

 to Wagon Camp. At Sisson B. T. Fisher collected eight during the 

 first half of September, and says of them : '^ One of the few really plen- 

 tiful mammals at Sisson. Hardly an acre in the valley is free from 

 their burrows. Lender the barns and houses, in the fields, along the 

 hot slopes east and west of the town, and even in the woods, one con- 

 stantly sees them. At the time I write of, September 1-15, they seemed 

 to be feeding chiefly on acorns and chinquapins — acorns in the valley, 

 chinquapins on the western slopes. In behavior they were wild and 

 sneaking; at all times diflicult to approach. None appeared to have 

 hibernated." 



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