Field notes, v1516
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K Pearson 1951 21 of the south branch. The few clusters we found were to the west side of the largest chamber. In the morning the bats were in the same places as far as we could tell. In all, collected 18 males & 4 females. The females were mostly scattered about in the passage, while the majority of the males were clustered in the warmer section of the largest room. Two of the females were unbanded, one young. About 2 banded adult ??. In Parish Cave at noon we collected the bats with the help of Brad Parish & a friend of his. They hung scattered over the ceiling in the largest part of the passage, and many were quite difficult to reach. It took us a long time to collect the bats, so many of them were awake before we were through banding. In all there were 81 ??, 35 ?? . There were very few young bats among the unbanded - about 2 young of each sex. Both in Subway & in Parish we found one male bat in very bad condition. The one in Subway we put on a ledge; we kept the one in Parish. He weighed 8.8 gms, although we both had the impression he felt very light. About 10 Eptesicus were in the crack near the crossroads in the south tunnel. No