Big-eared Bat; Little Brown Bat 
Big-eared Bat 
Corynorhinus macrotis (Le Conte) 
Length. 4.20 inches. 
Description. Ears very large, joined together in front; a round 
hump or swelling on each side of the head, between the 
eye and the nostril. Hair above, yellowish brown; below, 
grayish white, throat darker and tinged with yellow; all hairs 
dark brown at the base. 
Range. Gulf coast north to Kentucky and South Carolina. 
Little Brown Bat 
Myotis lucifugus (Le Conte) 
Length. 3.40 inches. 
Description. Fur above, glossy brown; paler and more yellowish 
below; wing membranes naked except a narrow strip near 
the body. 
Range. Whole of North America east of the Rocky Mountains. 
Covering the same range there is a very similar species, 
Say’s Bat (M. subulatus), with thinner membranes, longer 
ears and narrower skull. These and the Pipistrelle are the 
smallest of our bats. 
Bats are easily the queerest things to be found in this part 
of the world. 
In spite of their general abundance, and their way of con- 
gregating more thickly about dwellings than anywhere else, their 
ways are little known. We know, at least, that they are warm- 
blooded, furry, milk-giving little inhabitants of dark, stuffy cor- 
ners of old buildings and hollow trees. Awake, at the most, 
some four out of every twenty-four hours of their drowsy little 
lives, they never make any nests or even attempt to fix over 
the crannies where they hide and where the little bats are born. 
These helpless things are not left at home at the mercy of fora- 
ging rats and mice. When the old bat flits off into the twilight 
the youngsters often go with her clinging about her neck, 
swinging away over the tree-tops and along the foggy 
water-side, while she chases the numberless little flying things of 
the dark. 
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