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Murray
1948
Journal
May 30 El Chorro, 700±ft., 2mi W Agua Caliente.
femorossacca, flying fast and with narrow
wings. They also had a hunched forward
appearance to the shoulders. The other
large bats were Dasypeters, flying a little
slower and with broader wings.
Later on some of the bats began to fly
back up the canyon. Also a number of
them circled around over the pool at the
dam, mixing with the very numerous
violet-green swallows. Shot 2♀ Tadarida
femorossacca and 2♂,12 Dasypeters ega.
May 31 Santa Anita, 250±ft., (Lapd District), Baja Calif.
Put up our specimens and left after lunch.
Should mention that Hylaregilla are very
common on the muddy and grassy area
which drains the hot springs throughout
the day. Also saw several Bufo punctatus.
Drove to Santa Anita over the usual
dry brushy terrain and sandy soil. Here
we found a group of ranches and one
tropical looking part of dense palms, bananas
mesquites, and other green trees. There was
a lusher growth beneath of sudan grass or
something similar and through the whole
thing ran a small ditch of water, supposed-
ly the only open water in the vicinity.
Bats began flying at 6:40 and the first