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Murray
1948
74
Journal
May 20 | mE. San Antonio, Baja California
Put up specimens and continued on
through hills covered with a feathery
growth of Palo blanco and some copals,
lumbei and paloverde. At San Antonio
we visited a mine with a long horizontal
shaft containing a number of bats, but
found the way blocked and the bats gone beyond.
Did manage to net 3, Macrotes californicus
however.
A mile past the town we found a
mine well up the steep hillside with
a sloping entrance, a couple of side
passages, and then a very deep and
steeply inclined shaft going down. As
we first approached, saw many bats
flying in the entering passage. Trapped
a number of them in the two branches,
mostly Macrotes californicus and a few
of what we believe to be Septonycteris. Then
Dr. Benson descended into the shaft, from
which we could hear a roar of wing
beats from hundreds of bats. Many of
these he drove upward and we trapped
and caught them with a large net stretched
over the mouth of one passage. The shaft
turned out to have another entrance
at road level. Many bats which had been