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Murray
1948
75
Journal
May 20 G mi ESE San Antonio, 1200 ft, Baja California
driven out there flew in at our end.
It would be impossible to accurately
estimate the number present but it was
enormous for one bat location.
We drove on a few more miles and camped
for the night beside the road. Many of
the bats caught died from being packed
into sacks.
1 Hand elf owls tonight and Guest
shot 2.
May 21 Same location.
Put up 20 Macroscotus californicus and
20 Septonycteris among us, released some
and discarded others. When we awoke this
morning just after dawn there was a
loud chorus of white-winged dove calls,
with some gila woodpeckers also.
Drove on through about the same kind
of country, some of it rather flat,
and dominated by lumbioi, Palo Brazil,
copals and other dry bushy plants. Came
to Buena Vista on the coast where we made
camp under some mesquites at the Rancho
Buena Vista. Working in this locality is
William? Massey of the University
archeology department. We had already
met him when we were at Triunfo.