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346 Cotaloenbof the Mammalia of Connec 
personally acquainted with nearly every species hereinafter nam- 
ed. Although it has been attended with much labor and some 
expense, I have been abundantly compensated in« the pleasure 
the examination of the subject has afforded me. | As nothing of 
the kind (it is believed) has heretofore been attempted in this 
State, it is difficult to determine how any species, hitherto un- 
known in the State, I have been able to add to our list. But 
several of my smaller quadrupeds have heretofore been supposed 
by naturalists not to exist in this region ; and one species is en- 
tirely new in this country, except that another specimen was dis- 
covered about the same time at Rochester, New York. 
OrDER CARNIVORA. 
Family Vasrnnrriacneics. The Bat Family. 
1. Vespertilio Carolinensis, of Geoffrey, Carolina Bat, Stratford. 
2. V. noctivagans, Cooper, (Auduboni, Harlan,) Stratford. 
_ 3. V. Noveboracensis, Linn., the New York Bat, Stratford. 
*4. Y. pruinosus, Say, Hoaly Bat, Stratford. 
*5, V. subulatus? Say, Awl-eared Bat, Northford. 
Family Sortcwwz, The Shrew Family. 
#6. Sorex brevicaudis, of Say, Short-tailed Shrew, Stratford. 
*7, S. Dekayi, of Bachman, Dekay’s Shrew, Stratford. 
*8. S. parvus, Say, Small Shrew, Stamford 
*9, S. platyrrhinchus, Dekay, least and bedutifal Shrew, Strat- 
ford. 
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*4. 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 in 
oth belief that this bat migrates southerly in winter. ; 
I have seen a species of bat at Northford, more common there than either of 
a eeheria but have had no recent specimen, ‘ii believe it to be the subulatus of 
8. 
*6 and 8. An account of these two wresier. as discovered by me in Connectems 
was published in this Journal, Vol. xx 
“7. Of Of the ae’ I have taken ceveeal specimens, both old and sar 
49. ‘This beautiful little quadruped was taken in a decayed a ec log in 
ae , Jan. 22,1840. Total length 4 inches ; body gis head 2. neat ot 
> pune of head .8 inch; end of nose to end of ear 9; end of 
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