382 MAMMALS 



secured. These comprised adults and nearly grown young. A single specimen 

 was found in a cave back of Clarence Harbor, Long Island." 



The specific identity of this bat is in doubt, as I have had no opportunity 

 to examine true Macroius waterhousii Gray, from Haiti. 



LONCHORHINA AURITA Tomes. 

 LonchorMna aurita Tomes, 1863, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, p. 83. 



The original specimen is supposed to have been taken in Trinidad. 



Through the kindness of Mr. Witmer Stone, I have examined a specimen 

 (Adult male No. 1770, Academy of Natural Science of Philadelphia), ap- 

 parently the second known, of this very rare bat, taken in Nassau Harbor by 

 H. C. Wood. Its measurements are: total length, 100; head and body, 54; 

 tail, 46; tibia, 20.4; foot, 14; forearm, 50; first digit, 9; second digit, 43; 

 third digit, 97; fourth digit, 71; fifth digit, 67; width of ear, 23; skull, great- 

 est length, 9.6; zygomatic breadth, 11; least interorbital breadth, 5; breadth 

 of braincase above roots of zygomata, 9 ; maxillary toothrow exclusive of 

 incisors (alveoli), 7. 



PHYLLONYCTERIS PLAINFRONS Miller. 

 Phyllonycteris plainfrons Miller, 1899, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., vol. xiii, p. 34. 



Known only from the Bahamas. The genus is elsewhere confined to the 

 Greater Antilles. 



This species was based on one hundred and twenty-two alcoholic specimens 

 collected on New Providence by Mr. James E. Benedict and two skins from 

 the same island taken by Mr. C. J. Maynard. Subsequently Dr. Harris Ken- 

 nedy procured others and presented them to the U. S. National Museum. Mr. 

 Eiley obtained the animals on New Providence, Eleuthera, and Long Island. 



Mr. Maynard appears to have been the original discoverer of this bat. 

 He writes of it : " On June 2, 1884, in company with Sir Henry A. Blake, 

 Governor of the Bahamas, I visited a cave on the western shore of New 

 Providence, about six miles from Nassau, and found the dome-like roof covered 

 with pendent bats. We shot some ten or a dozen and found that eight had 

 young clinging to them. One of the adults, a female, was apparently unin- 

 jured, but being heavy with young, had fallen among the rest. This bat was 

 kept by Sir Henry and on the following day gave birth to a single young one. 

 This was born hind feet first and was thus enabled to cling to its mother, 

 who hung head downward, in the usual manner. I saw both bats the next day 

 and observed that the young one kept trying to find the teat of the mother, 



