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Murray
1948
3
Antrozous minor
May 27 El Carrizalito, 1400ft, 5 mi N Santiago, Baja Calif.
The wings, usually not all staying away longer than 3 or 4 minutes. Caught 3 by laboriously chasing them with a net.
These bats acted differently than the others in manner of flying. None entered the upstairs room which had been much used two nights ago. They did not fly back and forth between the wings and did go down to the other end of the building frequently. Outside of 1 at first and later 2, they didn't hang above the stairs.
After quite a while I found out why. Under the stairs to the 3rd floor and partially concealed by a hanging ledge, about 11 feet high from the hall floor, were hanging 3 Antrozous. A small pile of fresh droppings on the floor indicated that the location wasn't more than 2 days old.
Either different individuals had arrived or old ones were scared into changing places, probably the former since they acted differently. The 3 were sluggish and wouldn't move. In the course of scraping them off, they slid by and escaped. Shortly after there were more which were awake and ready to fly. Caught 2. Later as many as 6 were lying there and Dr. Benson caught several.