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P. PEARSON
1949
43
descend. This hole is about 20 yards left of road, 4 1/2 miles east of Cassel.
Then drove to the Pit I Power Station on the Pit River 1 1/2 mi NE Burney to investigate some tunnels in chalk cliff. Picked up a boy, Danny Shipley, who directed me to them: along the road that goes past the tennis court near the village below the power station. The tunnels (3 of them) are cut out along the road a few hundred yards downstream from the tennis courts.
Found 2 Cory's tarperd in the nearest of the 3; one of the Corys loaded with moratuus. Danny says he has found bats on the floor of the tunnel underneath.
Then home. arrived 1 a.m. left Burney about 6.
Mipple sizes of HF from this trip:
tiny 18
small 7
medium 9
large 33
If this is a x-section of population if mipple size is a good age-character and if sex ratio is 50-50, then the 18 tiny (young) must have come from > 33 large (adults), hence medium-mipples must be adults. These 33+9 = 42 adults probably didn't raise 18+7=26 young, so it may be that small mipples are adult also. :: 50 adults and 18 young.