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of the Mammalia of Connecticut" published in 1842, states : " I took a specimen of the 

 Hoary Bat, December, 1841, that measured 17 inches across the wings, and 6 inches in 

 length, and under circumstances which induced the belief that this bat migrates south- 

 erly in winter." (Silliman's American Jour. Sci., XLIIl, 1842, p. 346.) In the Proceedings 

 of the Natural Science Association of Staten Island, New York, for November I4th, 1885, 

 occurs the following note from Mr. W. T. Davis. The Hoary Bat, he says, " is rather rare 

 [at Staten Island, N. Y.] but it would appear to have visited this locality in some numbers 

 during the present autumn (1885), as one was also shot in the latter part of October, near 

 New Lots, Long Island." Mr. Davis has since written me that the specimen from New 

 Lots was killed by Mr. S. Ogieby, and given to him in the flesh. 



Concerning the occurrence of this bat in New Jersey, Mr. C. B. Eiker writes me : "On 

 September 10th, 1883, I captured one at Maplewood, New Jersey, hanging in a brush-lot, 

 on a sumac bush ; the specimen is now in my collection." Since the above was written 

 Mr. Riker has kindly sent me the specimen for examination. Mr. Eugene P. Bickwell 

 took one from an overhanging branch at Riverdale-on-the-Hadson, New York, September 

 30th, 1878. Dr. A. K. Fisher has never taken it at Sing Sing, New York, where he has 

 shot several hundred bats in summer, though he is confident that he saw a single indi- 

 vidual there on the evening of October 1st, 1883. 



Maximilian recorded the species as " not rare " in the fall at Bethlehem, Pennsil- 

 vauia, where three specimens were taken in August and September. ' 



In January of the present year (1887) Col. Alexander Macbeth sent me, from George- 

 town, South Carolina, a live Hoary Bat which was captured there on the morning of 

 Jauiiai-y 19th. Col. Macbeth writes me : " It was found on the piazza of a house, appa- 

 rently dead, and was thrown into the street. This was early in the morning — say at 

 sunrise. About 8 o'clock it .was picked up and brought to my office, where, after getting 

 warm, it flew around for a considerable tiine." About the middle of November, 1887, one 

 was found hanging from a branch at Baltimore, Maryland, and was kept alive for some 

 time. 



I am informed by Mr. F. "W. True, curator of Mammals, that there is a specimen in the 

 United States National Museum (No. 15345) which was received in the flesh from 

 Savannah, Georgia, February 6th, 1886. 



During its migrations, this species sometimes visits the distant Bermudas. Mr. J. 

 Matthew Jones says that at these islands it " is observed occasionally at dusk during the 

 autumn months hawking about according to its nature in search of insects ; but as it is 

 never seen except at that particular season it is clear that it is not a resident, but merely 

 blown across the ocean by those violent northwest gales which also usually bring numbers 

 of birds from the American continent." (Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 25, 1884, pp. 145, 146). 



In the Adirondack region, in northern New Y^'ork, I have never observed the Hoary 

 Bat earlier than May 18th (1884), or later than October 8th (1883), and the latter date 

 is exceptional — probably the record of a belated migrant, none having been seen for some 

 time ijreviously. The Adirondack region, like much of Canada, is noted for its lumber, 

 and many thousands of trees are cut there each winter. Still, I have never met a lumber- 

 man or wood-chopper who has found a bat in a tree in winter. 



' Verzeichniss der auf seiner Eeise in Nord- America Beobachteten Saugethiere, von Maximilian Prinzen zu 

 Wied, 1862, p. 11. 



