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this bat in the museum at Cambridge which was collected in Florida 

 by Mr. Charles Belknap. 



18. Corynorhinus macrotis H. ALLEN. 

 Big-eared Bat. 



Dr. Harrison Allen in his monogram of North American Bats (p. 

 55) cites a specimen of this species which was collected in Micauopy, 

 Florida, by Dr. Bean. 



NOCTILIONID^E. 

 19. Nyctinomus nasutus TOMES. 



A bat was shot by a member of my party on the St. John's River, 

 near Jacksonville, early in the winter, which I am confident was of 

 this species. This specimen was unfortunately lost. 



SHENODERMID^E. 



20. Artibeus perspiccilalune MAYNARD. 

 Tailless Leaf-nosed Bat. 



While at Key West in the early winter of 1870, I observed several 

 large bats flying about the city, which closely resembled in flight a 

 species which I had seen in northern Florida two years before, but 

 which flew so high that I was unable to shoot them. I was very 

 anxious to obtain a specimen, but as shooting was prohibited in the 

 streets of the city of Key West, and as I never saw the bats else- 

 where on the island, feared that I should be obliged to go away with- 

 out one. I was, therefore, agreeably surprised one morning to see a 

 boy enter my room with a bat in his hand, which from its large size 

 I knew could be no other than the species which I had so long desired 

 to obtain. He. said that he had found it hanging upon the leaf of a 

 tree and had killed it with a piece of limestone. It is a leaf-nosed 

 bat, and Dr. Harrison Allen has kindly identified it, from sketches 

 sent to him, as the above species. This is, I think, the first instance 

 on record of a bat of this form being taken on the Atlantic slope. 

 This species, without doubt, inhabits the whole of Florida. They fly 

 early in the evening, often before sunset, and, as has been remarked, 

 usually very high. 



None of the bats of Florida appear to hibernate, or at best they 

 only remain quiet during an occasionally cold night. 



SORECTD^E. 



21. Blarina brevicauda et talpoides BAIRD. 



Mole Shrew. 

 I found a single specimen of this little species in an unused cistern. 



