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NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. 



{ininial maybe Nycticeiuft humeraUs^ but there is nothing in tlie original 

 description' to indicate tliis with certainty. Fortunately the name is 

 not needed as all the species now known to inhabit the eastern United 

 States were already named at the time when it was published. 



Creeks (Vespertilio). F. Cuvier, Nouv. Ann. Mus. d'Hist. Nat., Paris, 

 I, p. 18, 1832. Vespertilio creels F. Cuvier is another unidentitiabh^ 

 species. Le Oonte, liowever, who sent the type specimen to Cuvier, 

 states tliat the animal is the same as Nycticea crepuscular is Le Conte 

 {=X. humeraUs liafinesque). Nothing in the original description^ con- 

 tradicts this assertion. 



Crepuscnlaris (Nycticea). Le Conte, McMurtrie's Cuvier, Animal 

 Kingdom, I, p. 431, 1831. This bat is tlie Xycticeiiis humeralis of Eafin- 

 esque. 



Cubanus (Vesperus). Gundlach, Monatsber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., 

 Berlin, p. 150, 1861. The description of tiiis species indicates a 

 Nycticeius closel3^ related to N. humeraUs. As I liave seen no Cuban 

 specimens, I am unable to say whether the animal is sjiecifically distinct 

 from the mainland form (see p. 121). 



Cubensis (Scotophilus). Gray, Ann. N"at. Hist., TV, p. 7, 1839. Hcoto- 

 ph il us cuhens is Gray is evidently the Cuban Yespertilio. The original 

 descrii^tion is as follows : 



Fur blackish brown (iu spirits) ; wings dark, blackish ; midorside of the inter- 

 fenioral membrane whitish, with scattered hairs; feet large; heel l)one short, taper- 

 ing; ears moderate, entire; tragus oyate'lauceolate. Body and head 2|; tail If; fore 

 arm If. Hab. Cuba. 



This is the first name based on the animal to which it refers. 



Cyanopterus (Vespertilio). Ratinesque, American Monthly Mag., Ill, 

 p. 415, 1818. Eafinesque's Yespertilio cyanopterus can not be identified 

 with any known bat. The original description is as follows: 



Tail one-third, 2 incisores above, 6 beneath, body dark gray above, bluish gray 

 beneath, wings of a dark bluish gray, shafts black, ears aiiriculated, longer than 

 the head. Length 3 inches, breadth 10. 



1 A la tete des Murinoides, deux fausses molaires anomales de chaque cote des deux 

 nnlchoires; I'oreille obtuse el Toreillon en couteau. 



Toutes les XJ:^rties supi^rieures du corps sont d'un brun-marron grisAtre, et les ])ar- 

 ties inferieures lilondes ; les poils, a leur origine, sont plus fences qu'u lenr extremity. 



Des moustaches garnissent les cotes de la levre snperieure et rextrcmite de la 

 muchoirc inferieure. 



Longueur du corps, du bout du museau a I'origine de la queue, 2 pouces; de la 

 queue, 1 ponce 8 lignes; euvergure, 8 pouces 8 lignes. 



Cette esp ce est due a M. Lesueur, qui I'a envoyce de New-York, sous le noni que 

 je lui ai conserve. 



^5" Le V. Creeks, V. Creels. 



A la tete du Serotinoides, point de fausses molaires anomales a la machoire snpe- 

 rieure, et une seule a Tinferieure; I'orielle est echancree, et I'oreillon en couteau; les 

 parties sujjdrieures sont d'un brun jaunatre, les parties inferieures d'un gris sale, les 

 poils de toutes ces parties sont noirs a leur base. Des moustaches garnissent les cAtes 

 du museau et le dessous de I'extremite de la machorie inferieure. 



Louguer du corps, du bout du museau a I'origine de la queue, 2 pouces; de la 

 queue, 1 pouce 6 lignes; envergure, 9 pouces. 



De G^orgie. Du aux recherches de M. le major Lecoute. 



