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Huachuea, Arizona, which the present writer has examined, measures, 
in millimeters: total length, 19.2; zygomatie breadth, 10.1; breadth 
of brain-ease, 10.0; interorbital constriction, 3.7. 
Distribution.—The type specimen was collected by F. Stephens 
at Agua Caliente [= Palm Springs], Colorado Desert, Riverside 
County, California, March 27, 1885. The only other Californian 
A skull of the pocketed bat (U.S. Nation. Mus. ), from Fort 
record of this bat, of which the writer is aware, is that by Elliot 
(1904a, p. 321), who reports the finding by Edmund Heller of a 
mummified specimen impaled on a mesquite bush in Palm Cajon, 
near Palm Springs. The bush overhung a pool of water where bats 
came to drink. (See map, text-fig. O.) 
Natural History.—Nothing is known of the habits of the pocketed 
bat. 
Nyctinomus mexicanus (Saussure) 
Mexican Free-tailed Bat 
M{[olossus|. mexicanus Saussure (1860, pp. 283-285, pl. 15, figs. 2, 2a). 
Original description; from Ameca, Jalisco, Mexico. 
Nyctinomus nasutus, H. Allen (1864, pp. 7-10). Description; nomen- 
clature; record of specimen from Fort Yuma. 
Nyctinomus nasutus, Cooper (1868, p. 5). Distribution. 
Nyctinomus nasutus, Cooper (in Cronise, 1868, p. 442), part. Occurrence 
in California. 
Nyctinomus nasutus, Coues and Yarrow (1875, pp. 81-82), part.  Dis- 
tribution. 
Nyctinomus brasiliensis, Dobson (1878, pp. 437-439, pl. 32, fig. 8). De- 
scription; general range. 
Nyctinomus brasiliensis, True (1885, p. 603). Range. 
Nyctinomus mohavensis, Bryant (1891a, p. 359). Distribution. 
Nyctinomus mohavensis, Bryant (1892, p. 220). Nominal. 
Nyctinomus brasiliensis, H. Allen (1894, pp. 163-171, pls. 32-33). De- 
scription; nomenclature; distribution. 
Nyctinomus brasiliensis californicus H. Allen (1894, p. 166, pl. 32, fig. 5). 
Description of a ‘‘variety’’ from ‘‘California.’’ The only California 
locality mentioned under N. brasiliensis is Fort Yuma. 
Nyctinomus mohavensis, Stowell (1894, pp. 362-364). Deseription; dis- 
tribution; habits of colony observed at San Jose, and occurrence at 
Pacifie Grove. 
Nyctinomus mohavensis, Elliot (1901, p. 418). Diagnosis. 
Nyctinomus brasiliensis californicus, Miller and Rehn (1901, p. 272). Type 
locality. 
Nyctinomus mohavensis, Miller and Rehn (1901, p. 273). Type locality. 
Nyctinomus mexicanus, Elliot (1904a, pp. 320-821). Records of oceur- 
rence at Palm Springs and Fort Tejon. 
Nyctinomus mexicanus, Elliot (1904b, pp. 629-630). Description; distri- 
bution. 
