Mammals of Washington, Volume 2: University of Kansas Publications Museum of Natural HistoryDalquest, Walter Woelber
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Mammals of Washington, Volume 2: University of Kansas Publications Museum of Natural History
Dalquest, Walter Woelber
Mammals -- Washington (State)
=Myotis lucifugus carissima= Thomas
_Myotis (Leuconoë) carissima_ Thomas, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., 13
(ser. 7): 383, May, 1904.
_Myotis lucifugus carissima_ Cary, N. Amer. Fauna, 42:43, October
3, 1917.
_Type._--Obtained at Yellowstone Lake, Yellowstone National Park,
Wyoming by J. Darling in September, 1903; type in British Museum.
_Racial characters._--Color pale, rather "brassy" in tone; distal
border of interfemoral membrane paler than proximal part.
_Measurements._--Four specimens from eastern Washington average:
total length 77; length of tail 33; hind foot 11; ear 13; height
of tragus 7.3.
_Distribution._--East of the eastern base of the Cascade
Mountains, save for the Blue Mountains of southeastern Washington.
Western records are Stehekin (Miller and Allen, 1928: 52) and
Vantage (W. W. D.)
=Myotis lucifugus alascensis= Miller
_Myotis lucifugus alascensis_ Miller, N. Amer. Fauna, 13:63,
October 16, 1897.
_Vespertilio gryphus lucifugus_ Allen, U. S. Nat. Mus. Bull.,
43:78, March 14, 1894 (part specimens from Washington).
_Type._--Obtained at Sitka, Alaska, by C. P. Streator on August 5,
1895; type in United States National Museum.
_Racial characters._--Color dark, almost bronze; wing and tail
membranes uniformly dark in color.
_Measurements._--Five specimens from San Juan County, Washington,
average: total length 80.9; length of tail 32.1; hind foot 12; ear
12; height of tragus 7; weight 5.4 grams.
_Distribution._--From the eastern base of the Cascade Mountains
west of the Pacific, and the Blue Mountains of southeastern
Washington. Marginal occurrences listed by Miller and Allen
(1928:49) are Chilliwack River, Lake Wenatchee, and Lyle.
=Myotis yumanensis= (H. Allen)
Yuma myotis
_Description._--The present species closely resembles _Myotis lucifugus_
and specimens in worn pelage can not be distinguished from that species
unless the cleaned skulls are examined. In fresh pelage, _yumanensis_ is
duller than _lucifugus_.
_Myotis yumanensis_ ranges from southern British Columbia to central
Mexico west of the Mississippi River. Four races are recognized by
Miller and Allen (1928: 62).
[Illustration: FIG. 34. Distribution of the Yuma myotis in Washington.
A. _Myotis yumanensis saturatus._ B. _Myotis yumanensis sociabilis._]
The habits of _Myotis yumanensis_ and _Myotis lucifugus_ appear to be
the same. In Washington the two species are commonly found together. In
western Washington, _Myotis yumanensis_ seems to be more common than
_Myotis lucifugus_.
In the San Juan Islands a _yumanensis_ was found hiding in the attic of
an old cabin on Blakeley Island. A specimen of long-eared bat was taken
at the same place. Another Yuma myotis was caught behind a door of a
mill on Blakeley Island (Dalquest, 1940: 4).
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