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Murray
1948
54
Journal
May 8 San Jose de Comondu, 700 ft., Baja Calif.
Comondu, impressively green. After a steep winding descent we entered it and wound up staying in an empty house in town.
May 9 Same location
Guided by some of the people here we hunted for bats in nearby caves. The canyon in which the town lies is bordered on each side by steep rocky slopes terminated on the top by sheer lava cliffs. At the base of these were a number of shallow caves, and a great many crevices which could contain bats. In all we could scare up only two in a small cave, of which Dr. Benson got one, a Choeronycteris. It proved to be carrying a young one. He also shot a Citellus atricapillus which was on the rocky talus slope. We have seen two others today.
After lunch we looked again for bats - tried shooting into the palm trees and looked in more caves. We have also tried the church. The people say that some may be found hung up in the trees.