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grass. No bats. Pulled up shrike from 3 skinned fer carriers,
Discarded 2 & Elymodontata : tests 6, SVR; tests 7 SV 7.
4 km N of town
Drove to Muster and visited at Estonia Muster (Sr. Horitz). The
family old rural house had predation etc but they had no evidence of
bats in it. They had occasionally found bats in a hawthorn tree
closing the house, and at least one had found dead bats under the
tree after a freeze (at least 2 or 3 bats). Mrs Horitz used to live
at Estonia Jalque, said there were bats in the attic there, and that she
used to see bats hanging in the current lumber than when she was picking
currants in summer.
We set all traps (+ 70) in three habitats: wet green-grass + juniper
+ dandelion along the road to town; drier grass, brush-grass weeds along
the railroad tracks across the road from the ranch; and bushy-pars - sagebrush
a few hundred meters east of the RR. The sagebrush one waist-high or
more, dense, with pole tallular blossoms.
Then drove back to the old mill 2 km N of town and camped
there and put up 2 bat nets. Ante also put out a few traps in
their grass - dandelion - orchard. Evening calm, 3/7 overcast, 9°C at
9:20. Saw 1 bat flying near our nets at about 10 p.m.
Nov. 16
Morning calm, 1/2 overcast, 6°C at 6 a.m. No bats in net. Traps
in lush grass along road caught only red-looked Abodon (plus one small
Elymodontata in a dry culvert under the road). The dry field caught
1 Reuthodon + more red-looked Abodon, the sagebrush area
produced 2 Abodon femina, and the lush orchard caught red-
looked Abodon. In addition to those prepared, discarded 6 red - lookd
Abodon, one obtain a jaw.
Met Sr. Brasse, owner of the old mill, and his administrator
and the latter's wife. The administrator used to live at Estonia