Abstract
Some 2,000 bats have been taken in 1954–55 in connection with an investigation of these animals as possible reservoirs and transmitting agents of rabies virus. Because of the frequency of virus isolations from the Mexican free-tailed bat, Tadarida mexicana (Saussure), most of our interest has centered on this species. Fortuitously, most of the large free-tailed bat retreats in Texas are in the central part of the state within reasonable distances of our Austin headquarters. While collecting bats rather intensively, locality records have been obtained that appear to represent extensions of the known ranges of two species. A female …
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