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K Pearson
1951
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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