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The fish-eating bat seems to be generally distributed among the 

 Antilles. Indeed, its habit of feeding on small fish would naturally 

 lead it over the water, so that its occurrence on most of the islands 

 would not be remarkable. Dobson records specimens from Jamaica 

 (Mt. Edgecombe), St. Thomas, and Grenada; Tomes mentions one 

 example from Long Hill, Jamaica; Elliot has noted it from Mona 

 and Dr. J. A. Allen (1890) from Antigua. Dahl in 1797, described 

 it from St. Croix as V. mastivus, but the status of this supposed form 

 is still in doubt. Gundlach (1866-7, p. 51) considers it a rare species 

 in Cuba, where it is sometimes seen flying about over the lagoons. 

 He says it is also found in Guadeloupe. The Museum has specimens 

 from Grenada, Sta. Lucia, and St. Vincent, the last collected by Mr. 

 Austin H. Clark in 1903. Mr. Clark tells me that this bat usually 

 resorts by day, to deep narrow clefts in the rocks, rather than to more 

 open caves, and that its presence in such places may often be detected 

 by its peculiar musky odor. 



P. H. Gosse (1847) has given an account of the habits of this bat 

 in Jamaica, where he found a colony spending the daytime in the 

 interior of a large hollow tree. 



PHYLLOSTOMIDAE. 



Chilonycteris macleayii Gray. 



Chilonyctcris macleayii Gray, Ann. Nat. Hist., 1839, 4, p. 5. 



Mr. Rehn, in his review of this genus (1904), notes that this bat 

 seems to be found throughout Cuba. It rests hanging in clusters 

 in caves, and often frequents houses as well. 



In a series of over fifty Cuban skins, collected by Mr. W. Palmer, 

 Mr. Miller has noted a very interesting dimorphism. Apparently 

 a larger and a smaller form occur together, independent of age or sex. 



Chilonycteris macleayii fuliginosa Gray. 



Chilonyctcris fuliginosa Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1843, p. 20. 

 This subspecies is confined to the island of San Domingo, and, 

 according to Rehn, is the smallest of the genus. 



Chilonycteris macleayii inflata Rehn. 



Chilonyctcris macleayii inflata Rehn, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila- 

 delphia, 1904, p. 190. 



