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NORTH AMERICAN FAUNA. 



Funebris (Lasiurus). Fitziiiger, Sitzungsber. K. Akad. Wiss., Wien, 

 Iste Abth., LXII, j). 4G, 1870. Lasiurus funehris Fitziiiger, based on 

 the Nycticeji{s noveboracensis of Temiuiuek,^ from Tennessee and Mis- 

 souri, is a synonym of Lasiurus horealis (Miiller), as shown by the 

 reference to tlie reddish-brown color and white shoulder spot. 



Fuscata (Atalapha). Kafinesque, Annals of Nature, p. 2, 1820. Eafi- 

 nesque's Atalapha fuscata can not be identified. The original descrip- 

 tion is as follows : 



Ears loDgers than the liead, auriciilated and Llackisli; tail three-seventlis of total 

 length, jntting only hy an ohtuso jjoint; body brownish above, grayish beneath 

 shoulders and cheeks dark brown; hind feet blackish, hairy above; wings blackish 

 brown. — Found in the northern parts of the state of New York and in Vermont. 

 Total length three and an half inches. My genus Jtalaplta (Free, dec.) contain all 

 the Bats without fore teeth ; there are 3 or 4 species of them in the United States all 

 blended under the name of Vespertilio (or Xoctilio) noveboracensis by the writers. 



Fuscus (Vespertilio). Beauvois, Catalogue Kaisonne du Museum de 

 Mr. 0. W. Peale. Philadelphie, p. 18, 1796. Yesijertilio fuscus Beauvois 

 is the first name based on the common brown bat of the eastern United 

 States.2 The original description is faulty, as it contains a glaring 

 error with respect to the number of uppei* incisors, which are said to be 

 only two. ^Nevertheless there can be no doubt as to the animal that 

 Beauvois intended to describe, since only one brown bat of the size of 

 Myotis myotls (Ha chauve-souris ordinaire de France') inhabits the 

 region about Philadelphia. 



Georgianus (Vespertilio). F. Cuvier, i^ouv. Ann. Mus. d'Hist. ^s"at., 

 Paris, I, J). 16, 1832. The specific name </eorf//f(;/?(.9 long passed current 

 for the small PipistreUus inhabiting the.eastern United States. In 1893 

 H. Allen substituted for it the older name caroHnensis Geoffroy. As 

 already shown, however, there can be no doubt that Geoffroy's animal 

 was Vespertilio fuscus. It is equally certain that Cuvier's name can 

 not be applied to the Georgian bat, since his description i^robably 

 refers to a Myotis, while in the same paper Cuvier accurately describes I 

 the Georgian bat as Yespertilio subflarus. Le Conte, wlio collected the I 

 specimens on which several of Cuvier's species were based, describes ' 

 the Georgian bat under the name georgianus,^ and expressly states that 



'Monographies de Mammalogie, II (13mo Monogr.), ji. 158. I 

 ^16. Chauve-souris brune. Deux premieres dents snporieures, distantes rune de 1 

 I'autre, & voisines des canines, une fois plus courtes que ces deruicres: oreilles uues, J 

 noiratres, ovales, avec un appeudice a leur l>ase; queue prescju'aussi longue que le 

 corps (la tete excepte) membrane ailiforme iioiratre: i)oil8 du corps bruus en dessas, ^ 

 grisatres en dessous. 



Brown bat, Vespertilio fuscus. 



Cette Chauve-sonris est la plus comnmne que Ton tron ve dans les envirovs de Fhil- 

 adelphie. Elle ressemble beauconp ;\ la chauve-soiuis ordinaire do France, maiu en 

 diffcre essentiellement par le nombre dcs dents de la machoire sup^rieure. 



3Proc.Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VII (1854-55), p. 131, 1856. 



