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Item A morphometric analysis of Carollia (Chiroptera, Phyllostomidae). American Museum novitates ; no. 2791(New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History, 1984) McLellan, Laura John."The species of bats in the genus Carollia present a complex pattern of morphological variation which complicates identification of species. I examined sexual and geographic variation in cranial and mandibular measurements of 475 specimens of Carollia selected to represent the geographic range of each species in the genus: brevicauda, castanea, perspicillata, and subrufa. All species were easily separated by canonical variates analysis, with C. castanea being the most distinctive. Sexual dimorphism is present in all species and males consistently are larger than females. Significant differences are present among populations in all species. Carollia subrufa and C. brevicauda have morphologically distinct populations in the northern and southern portions of their range, whereas different populations of C. castanea sampled show no clear geographic pattern. Character values from samples of C. perspicillata form a continuum with non-overlapping values from the northernmost and southernmost portions of their geographic range"--P. [1].Item Notes on bats of Sudan. American Museum novitates ; no. 2839(New York, N.Y. : American Museum of Natural History, 1986) McLellan, Laura John."Based upon recent collections of bats from Bahr-el-Ghazal and Equatoria provinces in southern Sudan, Epomophorus minor is added to the list of species known from that country, and the geographic ranges of Micropteropus pusillus, Eptesicus capensis, Eptesicus somalicus, and Chaerephon major are extended within Sudan. Examples of species poorly represented in museum collections were also collected, including Nycteris thebaica, Chalinolobus variegatus, and Scotoecus hirundo. Ecological notes were recorded; embryos and parasites were collected and preserved. Seventy-one species are now known to occur in Sudan"--P. [1].