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Sciurus fossor Peale.
U. 8. Pvxploring Kxpedition, VIII, ^lainiiuilia and Ornitholojjy, ji. 55, 1S48.
Type-locality.—Probably southern Oregon.
The specimen should be in the Museum, w ith other U. S. Explorin}^ Expedition
material, but nothing is known of it. Cassin, L'. 8. Explor. Exped. Mannn.
anti Oruitii., 1858, says specimens are in Academy of Natural Sciemes, Philadel-
phia, and in National Museum and mentions it in list on page 424.
Macrotus californicus liaird.
IVoc. Acad. Nat. Sii. I'hila., X, p. 11(5, presented for publication May 4, 1858.
=:Otopterus californicus (Baird). See ]\Iiller and Rehn, Proc. Bcjston See. Nat.
Hist., XXX, p. 278, December 27, 1901.
2347. In aleohol. Fort Yuma, California. Collected hy Maj.
(t. 11. Thomas, U. S. A. Catalocrued Mairh 2T, 1857.
Specimen can not be found. Dr. H. Allen evidently hail it in 1894. See p. ;W,
Monograph Bats North America, INIarch 14, 1894.
Type not designated l)y number in original descrijition. One specimen is
implied, and a tal)le of measurements is given agreeing exactly with those given
for No. 2:«7 in Baird's Report U. S. and Mex. Bound. Surv., II, Pt. 2, p. 4, 1859.
Vespertilio agilis II. Allen.
Proc. Ac^d. Nat. Sei. Phila., 186(i, p. 282, ordered pul)lished August 28, 18Ht).
Dr. II. Allen says, ''One individual. 9- No. i Mus.
of Smithsonian Institution. Alcohol. Doctor 8artoriiis. ^lira-
dor, Mexico."
Nothing is known of the specimen.
Vespertilio evotis 11. Allen. Lectotype.
Monograph of Bats of N(jrtli America, Smithsonian Miscall. Coll., No. I(i5, \>. 48,
June, 1864.
=Myotis evotis (H. Allen). See Miller, North Amer. Fauna, No. i:i, j). 77,
October 10, 1897.
5389. In alcohol. Monterey, California. Collected b}' A. 8.
Taylor. Catalogued October 31, 1861.
Tlu! following quotation from Miller, loc rit., p. 77, is the reason for «"onsider-
ing this specimen the type:
" Ti/pe-hx-alifi/.—Not stated, and no type designated. In the original dc'^crij)-
tion specimens are mentioned from the upper Missouri River and the Paciiic
coast from Puget Sound to Cape St. Lucas. Monterey, Cal. (one of the locali-
ties given), may be selected as the type locality."
No. 5389 is the only specimen from Monterey, and Monterey having lieen
chosen as the tyi)e-locality, .5889 should be considered as the type. The specimen
can nowhere be found in the collection.
Vespertilio exiguus 11. Allen.
Proc. Acad. Nat. S