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Murray
1948
Journal
May 27 El Carrizalito, 1400 ft., 5 mi. N Santiago, Baja Calif.
caught 2 more here, and later Dr. Benson
took several more (See species account)
May 28 Same location
This morning we went chasing off
over the hill in search of a cave with
bats. Found the cave but no bats nor
even a good prospect. In the course of
the walk saw some interesting country
though. Almost all of it was very thick
growth of the usual sort—lumber, copals,
palo blanco, palo de arco, mesquite etc.,
but much of the usually dry bushes were
partially leafed out. Also identified
cacachilo and palo colorado. Going
up a canyon of rocky boulders there
were many wild figs also, and what
the Mexicans called sage. Saw several
Cnemidophorus hypenrhus, a Cnemidophorus
tesselatus, Liposaurus dorsalis among
the bushes and a Sceloporus magister on
the rocks in the canyon. Also saw a
cardinal.
In the evening I saw the first bat,
un doubtedly a pipistrelle, at the same time,
6:50. Then there were no more for another
15 minutes. Found them fewer tonight
than ever, stationed at the lower pool