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)
Scheffer noted that the long-eared bats at Boulder Cave were nearly
ready to give birth to young on July 12, 1930, and were carrying naked
young a week later. On July 7, 1936, at the same locality, females
contained nearly full-term embryos.
[Illustration: FIG. 43. Distribution of the long-eared bat in
Washington. A. _Corynorhinus rafinesquii townsendii._ B. _Corynorhinus
rafinesquii intermedius._]
=Corynorhinus rafinesquii townsendii= (Cooper)
_Plecotus townsendii_ Cooper, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. New York, 4:73,
November, 1837.
_Corynorhinus macrotis townsendii_ Miller, N. Amer. Fauna, 13:53,
October 16, 1897.
_Corynorhinus megalotis townsendii_ G. M. Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp.
Zoöl., 60:344, April, 1916.
_Corynorhinus rafinesquii townsendii_ Miller, U. S. Nat. Mus.
Bull., 128:82, April 29, 1924.
_Type._--Probably obtained at Fort Vancouver, Clark County,
Washington; type not now in existence.
_Racial character._--Dark color.
_Measurements._--A male from Blakeley Island, San Juan County,
measured: total length 83; length of tail 43; hind foot 8.5; ear
37.4; tragus 15.1; weight 10 grams.
_Distribution._--Western Washington, from Blakeley Island (W. W.
D.) in the north, south to Seattle (W. W. D.) and Fort Vancouver.
=Corynorhinus rafinesquii intermedius= H. W. Grinnell
_Corynorhinus rafinesquii intermedius_ H. W. Grinnell, Univ.
California Publ. Zoöl., 12:320, December 4, 1914.
_Corynorhinus rafinesquii townsendii_ Dalquest, Jour. Mamm.,
19:213, May 14, 1938.
_Type._--Obtained at Auburn, Placer County, California, by J. C.
Hawver on July 31, 1909; type in Museum of Vertebrate Zoölogy.
_Racial characters._--Paler and duller than _townsendii_.
_Measurements._--One male and 6 females from 15 miles east of
Tonasket, Okanogan County, average: total length 96, length of
tail 47; hind foot 11; ear 35.5; tragus 14.
_Distribution._--Scattered localities in the arid subdivision of
the Transition Life-zone of eastern Washington, from 15 mi. E
Tonasket (W. W. D.) on the north to Boulder Cave (W. W. D.) on the
west and Spokane (W. S. C.) on the east.
_Remarks._--Of specimens in the University of Kansas, Museum of Natural
History, those from Selah (not plotted on distribution map), Yakima
County, are paler than those from Boulder Cave, Yakima County, but both
series are paler than specimens from the coast of Oregon.
[Illustration: FIG. 44. Distribution of the western pipistrelle,
_Pipistrellus hesperus hesperus_, in Washington.]
=Pipistrellus hesperus hesperus= (H. Allen)
Western pipistrelle
_Scotophilus hesperus_ H. Allen, Smithsonian Misc. Coll., 7 (no.
165):43, June, 1864.
_Vesperugo hesperus_ True, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 7:602, 1885.
_Pipistrellus hesperus_ Miller, N. Amer. Fauna, 13:88, October 16,
1897.
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