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Murray
1948
Tadarida femorosacca
May 30 El Chorro, 500± ft., 2 mi W Agua Caliente, Baja Calif.
Located beside a dam, N W of which is a
deeP canyon, full of rocks, and running
up into high rocky hills. In the evening
a number of bats came flying out of the
hills straight and high, starting at about
1:45. Later some of them came a little
lower down the canyon. We could
recognize the femorosacca by large size,
noticeably narrower wings, and a
sort of hunched up appearance of the
shoulders. They flew very fast. When
it was becoming dark they flew around
over the pond behind the dam. There were
several pools further up which they did
not seem to go to. Shot 2 F. There were also
many Daspterus flying.
June 4 6 mi N San José del Cabo, 250± ft., Baja Calif.
We looked in a crack up the hillside where
Dr. Benson saw bats enter early this morning.
There was a large rounded granite outcropping
and on its upper, outer exposed surface an
exfoliation which left a crack of about 3/4".
Several bats came out, the first two looking
like Tadarida mexicana; and several we
caught were Myotis velifer. There was just
1 femorosacca pinned under the rock.
The crack was almost completely filled with