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Murray
1948
Apr 30 San Ignacio, 500 ft., Baja California
around a few times and hang up on the
stone ceiling momentarily, appearing
to swing into the upside down position
in one quick motion. The momentum
then made them rock back and forth
a few times.
May 1 San Ignacio to San Lucas
Departed from San Ignacio with 4 species
of bats: Tadarida mexicana, Myotis yumanensis,
Macrotonus californicus and Centronous (1).
We traveled for several miles on the
same lava rock terrain with many cardons.
Then went down a hill to a long flat plain
of gray sand and creosote, palo verdes, yucca,
ironwood. Near the end of this came to
the first of the "Three Virgins", a large well
formed volcanic cone. Around it were
ledges of lava, the uppermost of which
was relatively fresh, unweathered material,
rather porous and broken up. On it grew
little but scrubby copale. After circling
around the volcano we very sharply
descended from the lava plateau and
crossed a mixture of lava and sandy
desert. This was grown over with
a variety of cactus and brush, including
cardon dulce or organ pipe cactus which