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P. PEARSON
1949
77
1572 q Corynorhinus rafinesquie
caught March 19 1 mi. NE Sutter Bank Mine, air 55°. Torpid. In basement until
1484+1485. Operated April 17, quite vascular, healthy - looking spermid
swelling in rt. horn 4 ½ mm. drain: Killed May 27.
Mipple medium, not pty. Rt. horn larger than left but not swollen.
Rt. ovary with small+ medium follicles, left ovary poorly with corpora
9.0g.
Aetna Mine, 1100 ft., Napa Co, Calif.
May 29, 1949
1573 ♂ Corynorhinus rafinesquie
caught 11 a.m. May 29 in burrow from roof of 2 tunnels at sharp bend. Torpid.
Only bot found within tunnel but breeding colony in adjacent tunnel.
Killed 9:30 a.m. May 30. Tail of epid easily pulled in this movement.
accessory small, 4 ½ mm across, seminal visicle
s.v.
2 mm. long. Testis pale, firm, 6mm. spermid 4mm,
many sperm in epid. smear but no motile ones seen
in water smear. No fat.
In sections: spermid packed with sperm. Individual interstitial
cells large but not a large amount of interstitial tissue. Many spermatozoa? dimensionous and
a few very large spermatogonial dimensions, but no sperm or bde in testis
tubule.
4 ½
8.6 g.
1574 ♀ Corynorhinus rafinesquie preg?
caught 11 a.m. in tunnel with lactating and nursing ♂♀ and young from
2.2 g. to 4.6. This one apparently not preg. or lactating. Banded
Killed 10 a.m. May 30. Was banded and killed 1 month ago.
161787. Mipple small, Uterus small, rt. horn very slightly
ticker than left, ov. not comparatively white- streaked. Ovaries
quite large with tiny follicles, no corpora or med. foll seen
under dissecting scope. Rt. horn 1mm. ant.-post. In sections: left
ovary with small incomplete corpus luteum, much interstitial tissue,
no large or med. follicles. Many leucocytes + nucleated epithelial cells in uterus.
8.7g.
Baby
1575 ♂ Corynorhinus rafinesquie
60x23x10x19x16 ³m 3.6g
Forearm 23mm. Fuzzy. Separated from mother about noon
May 29, killed 12 a.m. May 30. Bladder very full. Testis vascular,
3mm, epid. protracted, accessory tiny < ½ mm. Abdomen 14.5mm long.
In sections: tubule small mature. Interstitial cells large, much
interstitial tissue
Baby
1576 ♀ Corynorhinus rafinesquie intermedius
55x18x10x15x11³m 2.6g.
Born just before or just after capture noon May 29. Umbilicus still attached.
Baby able to "chip" and chirp. Weighed 2.6 g at that time. When killed
May 30 10 a.m. after being separated from mother weighed 2.6g. Forearm 17.5mm,
no fuzz. Umbilicus dry but still attached when killed. Abdomen 17.5 mm long.