18 Mary K. Clark, David S. Lee, John B. Funderburg, Jr. 



locality not identified (NCSM records); Robeson Co., Lumberton 

 (NCSM records); and Scotland Co., near Laurinburg (NCSM 3037). 

 Most of these records, if not all, are associated with Carolina bays and 

 mature bay forest communities. 



Chiroptera: Bats 



Lasionycteris noctivagans (LeConte), Silver-haired Bat. On the even- 

 ing of 7 April 1984 we collected 2 (NCSM 4179-80) of 20 or 25 of these 

 bats while they were foraging over a borrow pit pond in Brunswick 

 County. The pond was in a savanna and the direction from which the 

 bats emerged indicated that they were roosting either in the savanna, in 

 a shrub-savanna-pocosin, or in both. The bats were foraging with Lasiu- 

 rus cinereus and Nycticeius humeralis, and Lasionycteris became more 

 abund.ant as darkness approached. Searching above the pond after dark 

 with high intensity spotlights, however, revealed few bats. Silver-haired 

 Bats are uncommon spring and fall migrants and winter residents on the 

 North Carolina Coastal Plain (Lee et al. 1982). The normal period of 

 occurrences for the species in eastern North Carolina is documented 

 from 17 November to 3 May (100 years of records from NCSM files). 



Pipistrellus subflavus (F. Cuvier), Eastern Pipistrelle. This small bat 

 is common in low pine-shrub bogs but is expected in most of the other 

 vegetation types discussed. Approximately 25 pipistrelles were seen feed- 

 ing at treetop level in Holly Shelter, Pender County, on 25 July 1983; 2 

 of them (NCSM 4064-5) were collected. A single specimen (NCSM 

 4181) was collected of three found in 1983 in an abandoned house near 

 Lake Waccamaw, Columbus County. Three specimens (NCSM 3535-6, 

 3725) were taken on various dates while they foraged over a pond in 

 Hoke County. This site, dominated by Turkey Oak-Longleaf Pine habitat, 

 is adjacent to a small Carolina bay and extensive stream-head forest. 



Eptesicus fuscus fuscus (Palisot de Beauvois), Big Brown Bat. This 

 bat is not particularly common on the outer Coastal Plain of North 

 Carolina. A single specimen (NCSM 3888) was taken and one other 

 observed, in an opening in a deciduous bay forest at Buffalo City, Dare 

 County, on 27 April 1983. Another specimen (NCSM 3846) was col- 

 lected on 6 July 1982 at McCain. Additionally, we saw a bat that 

 appeared to be this species foraging adjacent to and over a pine-shrub 

 bog in Pender County. In Bladen County, the Big Brown Bat was occa- 

 sionally found associated with Plecotus rafinesquii in abandoned 

 buildings. 



Lasiurus borealis borealis (Muller), Red Bat. Red Bats were regularly 

 seen feeding at subcanopy height above roads and other openings in all 



