PRELIMINARY LIST OF THE MAMMALS OF NEW YORK 



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I have found the star-nosed mole common at Geneva, Ontario co. ; 

 Peterboro, Madison co. and Elizabethtown, Essex co. 



Mr Savage writes that this species is not rare in the neighborhood of 

 Buffalo, though less numerous than the naked-tailed mole. 



" Several years ago I found a specimen lying dead in the street at 

 Miller place, Long Island. This is my only record for the region'' 

 (Helme). 



Myotis lucifugus (Le Conte) Little brown bat 

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



kingdom. Append. 1:431. 

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



p. 8 (part). 



1864 Vespertilio lucifugus H. Allen, Monogr. bats N. Am. p. 55. 

 1884 Vespertilio subulatus Merriam, Linn soc. Xew York. Trans. 2: 96 

 (part). 



1893 Vespertilio gryphus Var. (a) Vespertilio gryphus lucifugus, H. 

 Allen, Monogr. bats N. Am. p. 78. 



1896 Vespertilio lucifugus Fisher, The Observ er. 7 : 195. 



1897 Myotis lucifugus Miller, North American fauna, no. 13. p. 59. 



1898 Myotis lucifugus Mearns, U. S. Nat. mus. Proc. 21 : 357. 



Type locality. Southern Georgia. 



Faunal position. The little brown bat ranges from Florida to Alaska, 

 or throughout the breadth of five life zones. Such a distribution is 

 very difficult to understand in the absence of definite knowledge of the 

 real climatic conditions to which the animal is exposed during its 

 breeding season. 



Habitat. Caves, hollow trees and crevices in buildings. Dr Harrison 

 Allen refers to this bat as "a strictly pastoral species " which " is not col- 

 lected in houses either in town or country " (' 93, p. 84). This statement 

 is very misleading as the little brown bat often takes up its abode in 

 buildings where it occasionally becomes a serious pest. This is the 

 common bat of the Mammoth cave (Rhodes, '97b, p. 59). 



Distribution in New York. As might be expected from its wide range, 

 the little brown bat occurs throughout New York state. It is not equally 

 common in all localities however, and the details of its local distribution 

 remain to be worked out. 



Principal records. De Kay : (Mentioned as a common species. The 

 account probably refers partly to this animal and partly to M. subulatus. 

 '42, p. 9). Merriam: " Next to the silver-haired bat this is the com- 

 monest and most universally distributed species in the Adirondacks, so 



