ATALAPHA CINEREA. 
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viduals have been procured from localities so far to the southward 
of its usual habitat that I am constrained to believe it a migratory 
species. William Cooper mentions a specimen that was killed, “ in 
the- month of November, near the hights of Weehawken, in New 
Jersey * * * § DeKay says that he “ noticed two Hying about quite 
actively shortly before noon” on the 12th of December, 1 84 r 
(locality not mentioned, but presumably Long Island, N. Y.);f 
Zadock Thompson secured one that was taken alive at Colchester, 
Vermont, about the last of October, 1841 ; J and Mr. E. P. Bick- 
nell took one from an overhanging branch at Riverdale-on-the- 
Huclson, New York, September 30th, 1878. § Dr. A. I\. Fisher 
has never taken it at Sing Sing, New York, where he has shot 
several hundred bats in summer, though he is confident that he 
saw a single individual there on the evening of October 1st, 1883. 
Nothing whatever appears to be known of the breeding habits 
of the Hoary Bat. On the evening of the 30th of June last (1883) 
Dr. A. K. Fisher shot a large female (measuring 422mm. in spread 
of wings) at my home in Lewis County. It had already given 
birth to its young, and each of its four mammae bore evidence of 
having recently been nursed. That the species ruts about the first 
of August there can be no reasonable doubt, for I saw more of 
them from the 30th of July till the 6th of August than I have seen 
in all before and since, and twelve adult specimens killed during 
that brief period were all males. They were not feeding, but were 
rushing wildly about, evidently in search of the females. Many 
Hew so high as to be entirely out of range though directly over- 
head. The only young I have ever seen was shot here, August 
6th, 1883, by Walter H. Merriam. It was nearly full grown 
* Researches on the Cheiroptera of the United States, Annals Lyceum Natural History, N. Y., 
1837, p. 56. 
f Zoology of New York. Part r, 1842, p. 8. 
t Natural and Civil History of Vermont, 1842, p. 25. 
§ Mr. Bicknell writes me that “it was met with about sunrise, hanging at a height of about six 
feet, in a young tree in an opening near the border of a wood.” 
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