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and thick and is covered with scattered coarse hairs. When not 

 frightened or suspicious it generally rises to the surface to breathe 

 at intervals of from one to two and a half minutes. 



Family VESPERTILIONID^. The Bats. 



ARTIBEUS CARPOLEQUS Gosse. 

 Leaf-Nosed Bat. 



A. carfolegus Chapman. Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., p. 342, 

 1894. 



A. fersficillatus H. Allen. Bats N. A., p. 93, 1893. 



Nose with leaflike membrane ; general color ashy brown ; expanse 

 of wings, 12.50 to 14. 



A single specimen recorded from Key West by Mr. C. J. May- 

 nard (Bull. Essex Inst., Salem, Mass., Oct., 1872, p. 144, 

 V^ol. IV., No. 10), as Artiheus fersficillatus . According to Mr. F. M. 

 Chapman (Bull. American Mus. Nat. Hist., p. 341, 1894), the 

 Cuban species is Artihetis carpolegus, Gosse, and not -pers^ic- 

 illatus, differing from that species in the absence of conspicuous 

 facial streaks, and in its smaller size. 



CORYNORH!NUS HACROTIS {Le Conte). 

 Big= Eared Bat. 



Ears very large ; fur soft, dark at base with lighter tips ; under 

 parts of body pale; expanse of wings, 9.50 to 10.75. 



Recorded by Dr. Harrison Allen (Bats N. A., p. 58), from 

 Florida, a single specimen having been taken at Micanopy by 

 Dr. Bean. 



VESPERTILIO QRYPHUS. F. Cuv. 

 Little Brown Bat. 



Small ; general color brown, showing a tinge of olive in some 

 lights ; the basal portion of the fur (concealed) is dark plumbeous ; 

 face whiskered ; expanse of wing, 8 to 9.25. 



Recorded by Dr. Rhoads (Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., 1894,) 

 from Tarpon Springs, " Several specimens taken." 



