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far as my observations have extended. Professor Baird has taken the 

 typical animal at Elizabethtown, and the form known as lucifugus at 

 YYestport " ('84, p. 96). Fisher : " Out of the hundreds of bats collected 

 only one of this species was ever secured , ' ('96, p. 195). Miller: "The 

 species is recorded from Adirondacks, Big moose lake, Catskill moun- 

 tains, Howe's cave, Lake George, Locust grove, Lyons falls, Oneida 

 lake, Peterboro. Sing Sing and West point" ('97, p. 62). Mearns : "This 

 was the commonest bat in the Catskills and seen nightly" ('98b, 

 P- 357)- 



I have found the little brown bat excessively abundant near the south- 

 east shore of Oneida lake. Here it occurred in large colonies between 

 rafters in barns and under the roofs and loose clapboards of old houses. 

 At Peterboro the animal though le^s numerous than at Oneida lake, is 

 common. 



Mr Savage has taken a small brown bat, in a cave in the Niagara river 

 gorge near the Devil's hole, which with some doubt he refers to this 

 species. 



My Otis subulatus (Say) Says bat 

 1823 ? Vespertilio subulatus Say, Long's exped. to the Rocky mts 2 : 65 

 footnote. 



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

 p. 8 (part). 



1864 Vespertilio subulatus H. Allen, Monogr. bats N. Am. p. 5r. 

 1884 Vespertilio subulatus Merriam, Linn. soc. New York. Trans. 

 2 : 96 (part). 



1893 Northern form of Vespertilio gryphus H. Allen, Monogr. bats N. 

 Am. p. 80. 



1897 Myotis subulatus Miller, North American fauna, no. 13. p. 75. 



1898 Myotis subulatus Mearns, Am. mus. nat. hist. Bui. 9 Sep. 1898. 



10: 344. 



Type locality. Arkansas river, near La Junta, Colorado. 



Faunal position. Too little is known of the range of this bat to per- 

 mit the species to be assigned any definite faunal position. At present it 

 is known to occur in the boreal, transition and upper austral zones. 



Habitat. Probably similar to the little brown bat. 



Distribution in New York. Say's bat probably occurs throughout the 

 state but the details of its distribution are unknown. 



Principal records. De Kay : (The account given by De Kay doubtless 

 refers in part to this species) H.Allen: Specimen recorded from 

 Elizabethtown, Essex co. ('6*4, p. 53). This is the first definite New 



