PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE MAMMALS OF NEW YORK 367 



York record. Merriam : Reference made to the Elizabethtown speci- 

 men previously recorded by Harrison Allen ('84, p. 96). Miller : 

 Specimens mentioned from Hammond ville, Hemlock lake, Highland 

 falls, Lake George and Peterboro ('97c, p 76). Mearns : "This bat is 

 quite uncommon in the Hudson highlands " ('98a, p. 344). 



I have taken a few specimens of Say's bat at Peterboro, Madison co. 

 where it is much less common than the little brown bat. 



Lasionycteris noctivagans (Le Conte) Silvery bat 

 1831 Vespertilio noctivagans Le Conte, McMurtrie's Cuvier, Animal 



kingdom. June 1831. 1:31. 

 1 83 1 Vespertilio auduboni Harlan, Monthly Amer. journ. geol. and 



nat. hist. Nov. 1831. 1 : 220. 

 1842 Vespertilio noctivagans De Kay, Zoology of New York, Mammalia. 



p. 9. 



1864 Scotophilia noctivagans H. Allen, Monogr. bats N. Am. p. 39. 



1865 Lasionycteris noctivagans Peters, Monatsber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wis- 



sensch. Berlin, p. 648. 

 1884 Vesperugo noctivagans Merriam, Linn. soc. New York. Trans 



2 : 90. 

 1893 Lasionycteris noctivagans H. Allen, Monogr. bats N. Am. p. 105 



1896 Vesperugo noctivagans Fisher, The Observer. May 1896. 7: 195 



1897 Lasionycteris noctivagans Miller, North American fauna, no. 13 



16 Oct. 1897. p. 86. 



1898 Lasionycteris noctivagans Mearns, Am. mus. nat. hist. Bui. 9 



Sep. 1898. 10 =345. 



Type locality. Eastern United States. 



Faunal position. Boreal transition and northern edge of upper austral 

 zones. 



Distribution in New York. The silvery bat is found either as a 

 migrant or summer resident throughout the state. While its breeding 

 range scarcely reaches the upper limit of the upper austral zone, its 

 migrations carry it to the Bermudas and to the extreme southern United 

 States (see Merriam, J 88, p. 85 and Miller, '97a, p. 543). 



Principal records. De Kay : " The silver-haired bat is common on 

 Long Island and the southern counties of the state" ('42, p. 10). 

 Merriam: "This is our commonest bat, far outnumbering all the other 

 species together. I have killed it in various parts of the wilderness, and 

 during the past summer ... . shot over 125 in Lewis co. . . . "('84H, 

 p. 90). Fisher: " Tolerably common [near Sing Sing] . . . On June 24, 



