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21. GLOSSOPHAGA LONGIROSTRIS Miller. 
MILLER'S GLOSSOPHAGA. 
1S9S. r;inswphaf/a Inngirnxlriii Miller, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phil. 189S, p. 880. 
1900. (rlossophaga loiiglroi^tris J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., XIII, p. <S9. 
Represented by 48 specimens — 30 skins and 18 alcoholics. 
Found abundant!}' at La Guaira, Macuto, San Jvilian, and at Pena 
de Mora, and in a great variety of situations — in hollow trees, in 
small caves and crevices in rocks, in holes under bowlders, under the 
drooping- roots dangling from an overhanging bank, in unoccupied 
huts, in the attics of houses, etc. Nearly all of the females taken 
were either nursing or else far advanced in pregnancy. A female 
taken at La Guaira on July 4 measured 67 mm. in length and 292 in 
extent, and was carrying a 3'oung male whose length was 53 and extent 
215. The tongue can be extended 34 mm. beyond the tip of the nose. 
The interfemoral membrane extends 8 mm. beyond the tip of the tail. 
The mamniffi are two. 
Measurnni'vfi^. 
Number. 
Sex. 
Length. 
Tail. 
Forearm. 
Longest 
finger. 
Tibia. 
Fo)t. 
Greatest 
length 
of skull. 
\VR 14:)8 
Female . . . 
67 
- 
36. 6 
78 
15 
n.4 
23 
WR 1470 
Male 
70 
11 
37 
81 
16 
12 
23.6 
WR 1471 
do.... 
70 
9 
37 
77 
16 
11.4 
22.6 
WR 1472 
do.... 
69 
8 
37 
78 
15.4 
10.4 
23 
WR 1473 
do.... 
74 
7 
35.2 
79 
15 
11 
23.4 
WR 1474 
do .... 
70 
9 
36 
77 
16 
10.4 
23 
WR 1.553 
Female . . . 
69 
7 
36 
78 
15 
11 
23 
WR 15.51 
Male .... 
71 
8 
36 
76 
15 
11 
23 
WR lotiS 
Female . . 
71 
8 
36 
80 
15 
10 
23.2 
WR 1610 
Male 
70 
11 
36 
77 
14 
11 
23 
WR 1611 
do ... . 
68 
8 
37 
78 
15 
11 
23 
WR 1614 
WR 1658 
do.... 
Female . . . 
68 
74 
8 
10 
77 
78 
15 
16 
11 
11.6 
38 
23.4 
22. GLOSSOPHAGA SORICINA (Pallas). 
SHREW-LIKE GLOSSOPHAGA. 
1897. GIosKophaga snrlcliin, Allex and Chapm.\n, Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist., IX, 
p. 15. 
1898. Glosaophaga Koririiia, J. A. Allen, Bull. Amer. INIns. Nat. Hist., XIII, p. 89, 
Represented b}' 4 skins collected at San Julian, where they were 
found associating with the much commoner species, (r. Imigirostris. 
The habits of the two species are evidently the same. 
Mrnifiirciiieiits. 
