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the more recent animal remains, bats of the present day, were 

 deposited. Therefore, while it is quite possible that this bat 

 may be discovered living on some part of the island I am led to 

 believe that it is truly extinct, a fossil of an earlier period than 

 the very recent." Since, like its living relative, this was in all 

 probability a tree-dwelling and fruit-eating species, it may have 

 had a rather precarious foothold in this drier eastern part of 

 Cuba. In a note in his paper of 1919, Anthony adds that a 

 further comparison of the specimens of the two species, P. 

 falcatus and P. veins, confirms his belief that the latter was an 

 older inhabitant of the region for the bones "are all more 

 ancient in appearance, more deeply stained and discolored"; 

 while the fact that the owls that prey upon these bats have not 

 brought them in to add to the more recent deposits is indicative 

 of the same thing. 



Of the Hispaniolan species still less is known, for beyond 

 the original specimen from Cana Honda, Haiti, it has elsewhere 

 been recorded only from owl deposits. These are: near Con- 

 stanza, in the mountainous interior of the Dominican Republic, 

 where "in a shelter under an overhanging ledge about 100 feet 

 up the northern flank of Monte* Culo de Maco," Herbert W. 

 Krieger secured a broken skull and a mandible (Miller, 1930, 

 p. 6); in a large cave near St. Michel, ten skulls and several 

 mandibles; one skull from the deep cave and a mandible from 

 the crooked cave near the same place; and a skull from owl 

 pellets in the cave at Diquini, Haiti. These were found at all 

 levels from the surface to a depth of two feet (Miller, 1929a). 



These small, heavy -bodied, fruit-eating bats may have been 

 easily taken by their enemy the barn owl. Probably the 

 species still persists in wooded regions of this island. 



" DUSKY NASEBERRY BAT" 



ARITETJS ACHRADOPHILUS (Gosse) 



Artibeus achradophilus P. H. Gosse, Naturalist's Sojourn in Jamaica, p. 271, footnote 



1851 (Content, Jamaica). 

 SYNONYMS: Artibeus sulphureus P. H. Gosse, op. cit., p. 271, footnote, 1851; Adieus 



flavescens Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1866, p. 117. 

 FIGS.: Gosse and Hill, 1851, pi. 6, fig. 4 (nose leaf); Peters, 1867, pp. 433-434, pi. 2. 



For practically all we know of this bat, we are indebted to 

 P. H. Gosse who first described it in his "Naturalist's Sojourn 

 in Jamaica," the island to which it is confined. 



