sociated with localities mentioned in the text from which specimens
at Kansas were collected are plotted on Fig. 1.
[1] Curator, Division of Mammals, Museum of Natural History,
University of Kansas.
[2] Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, California State
College, Fullerton, California.
[3] Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, St. Benedicts
College, Atchison, Kansas.
[Illustration: FIG. 1.--Map of Nicaragua showing location of
place-names associated with specimens reported in this paper.
Localities, identified by number, are as follows: I, Potosi; 2,
Cosigueina; 3, Hda. Bellavista, Volcan Casita; 4, Chinandega; 5, San
Antonio; 6, Jalapa; 7, Condega; 8, Yali; 9, Santa Maria de Ostuma;
10, San Ramon; 11, Matagalpa; 12, Dario; 13, Esquipulas; 14, Santa
Rosa; 15, Boaco; 16, Teustepe; 17, Tipitapa; 18, Sabana Grande; 19,
Managua; 20, Cuapa; 21, Villa Somoza; 22, Hato Grande; 23, Diriamba;
24, Guanacaste; 25, Mecatepe; 26, Nandaime; 27, Alta Gracia, Isla de
Ometepe; 28, Merida, Isla de Ometepe; 29, Rivas; 30, San Juan del
Sur; 31, Sapoa; 32, Bonanza; 33, El Recreo; 34, Cara de Mono.]
In the accounts that follow, departments in Nicaragua are listed
alphabetically, but localities within each department are arranged from
north to south; elevations are given in meters or feet, depending on
which was used on specimen labels. All specimens are in the Museum of
Natural History of The University of Kansas unless noted otherwise. We
are indebted to Drs. Charles O. Handley, Jr., and Ronald Pine of the
U.S. National Museum (USNM) for lending us certain critical specimens.
ACCOUNTS OF SPECIES
Saccopteryx leptura (Schreber, 1774)
Two specimens from El Paraiso, 1 km N Cosigueina, 20 m, Chinandega, on
the Cosigueina Peninsula, provide the fourth locality of record for this
white-lined bat in Nicaragua. Jones (1964a:506) and Davis _et al._
(1964:375) earlier reported a total of eight specimens from the
departments of Managua and Zelaya. The species is known as far north in
Middle America as Chiapas (Carter _et al._, 1966:489).
Our two bats, both females, were shot on the evening of 1 March 1968 as
they foraged around a yard light. One carried an embryo that measured 8
mm (crown-rump), whereas the other was reproductively inactive.
Peropteryx macrotis macrotis (Wagner, 1843)
Four females (one young and three adult) captured 5 km N and 9 k
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