5a 



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amis Davis, which is distributed over peninsular Florida and south- 

 eastern Georgia. W. H. Davis (1957, p. 215) speculated that perhaps 

 this animal actually was a jioridanus that had wandered northward. 

 In a later publication ( 1959, p. 524) , however, he says that unless it can 

 be shown that this actually happened it is best to refer this specimen 

 to P. s. subfiavus. The specimen has been in the National collections 

 for many years (collected 20 August 1887) , and the unusual coloration 

 is perhaps due to fading. 



BIG BROWN BAT 



Eptesicus fuscus fuscus (Palisot de Beauvois) 



Vespertilio f uscus Palisot de Beauvois, Catalogue Raisonne du Museum 

 de Mr. C. W. Peale, Philadelphia, p. 18 (p. 14 of English ed. by 

 Peale and Beauvois) , 1796. 

 Type locality. — Philadelphia, Pa. 



General distriMtion. — Eastern North America, from Quebec, Ontario, and 

 Manitoba, south into Florida and Nuevo Leon, Mexico. 



Dist7il)ution in Maryland. — Abundant in the lower Piedmont and 

 upper Western Shore sections in the vicinity of the fall line. Uncom- 

 mon in the Allegheny Mountain, Ridge and Valley, and Eastern Shore 

 sections. 



Figure 20. — Distribution of Eptesicus furscus fuscus. 



