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JOURNAL OF MAMMALOGY 
ON A NEW BAT FROM MANCHURIA 
By Arthur de Carle Sowerby, F. Z. S. 
In the autumn of 1914, while on a collecting trip in the forests of 
North Kirin, Manchuria, on behalf of the United States National 
Museum, I secured a specimen of a Murina representing a form related 
to M. huttoni of northern India, but sufficiently distinct from the 
latter as well as from all other known forms from eastern Asia to war- 
rant its being separated as a new subspecies of huttoni. The specimen 
was sent to the United States National Museum, where, in company 
with Mr. Gerrit S. Miller, Jr., of that institution, who passed on his 
notes to me, I was able to reexamine it. This new form may be known 
by the name: 
Murina huttoni fuscus subsp. nov. 
It may be described as a dusky brown form of huttoni in which there are numer- 
ous long hairs of a lighter color scattered through the pelt and extending on to 
the webbing between the tail and the hind legs as well as upon the feet. The 
under parts are slightly lighter than the upper parts. 
It differs from true huttoni in being of a darker color, huttoni having been 
described as ‘Jight snuff-brown” by Hutton in 1872. There is, however, no 
detailed description of true huttoni. Peters described the upper incisors of this 
species as being separated from the canines as in suilla, of Java and Sumatra, 
his plate of the latter showing a wide and definite space quite unlike the narrow 
crack in the Kirin specimen. 
The Kirin specimen differs from M. ussuriensis, Ognev, of the Ussuri region, 
in its larger size, its forearm measuring 40 mm. instead of 32 mm. It differs 
from M. hilgendorfi, Peters, of Japan, in being larger, its head and body measuring 
58 mm. as against 50 mm. There is no sign of the low sagittal crest present in 
hilgendorfi. From M. auratus, M.-Edw., of Tibet, it differs in its much greater 
size; from M. leucogaster, M.-Edw. (with which it agrees in general size) in its 
very different color, leucogaster having the entire upper parts ‘Trun-ch^tain,” 
and in the much less backwardly-projecting occipital region; from M. sibiricus 
in having the upper incisors proportioned as in leucogaster ; and from M. rubella, 
Thos., in the absence of any red color. 
It may be mentioned, incidentally, that M. ussuriensis and M. hilgendorfi 
have been secured in Manchuria, while M. rubella was described from Kuatun, 
in Fukien province, China. 
Type. — Female, skin and skull. No. 199672, U. S. National Museum, taken 
in the forest of North Kirin, Imienpo area, Manchuria, September 28, 1914, by 
A. de C. Sowerby. Original number, 702. 
Measurements . — 'Head and body, 58 mm. ; tail, 34 mm. ; ear, 18 mm. ; forearm, 
40 mm. Skull. — ^Greatest length, 16.8 mm. ; zygomatic width, 10.4 mm. ; upper 
tooth row, exclusive of incisors, 5.6 mm.; lower tooth row, 6.4 mm.; lower jaw. 
12.2 mm. 
