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Quast
1948
75
Journal
May 22 Buena Vista, 25-½ ft, 23°35'N, 109°41'W, Baja California
Visited a mountain full of caves this afternoon.
Its name is Cerro Agua Amarga and it lies about
4 miles S.E. of the school. From the school, looking
S.E., three mountains are visible, the tallest
one being on the right of the other two. The hill
containing the caves is the center one. The caves
occur in sedimentary strata that run through
the hill and their maximum depth probably does
not exceed 75 feet. Most of them have wide
mouths and are spherical within, the surface
of the being pitted by innumerable concavities about
3 inches wide and as deep. We investigated all the
caves we could find on the hill and found bats
in only two of them. The first cave containing
bats was about half way up the hill on the
N.W. side and was about 75 feet deep, two
small rooms being present one in back of the
other. The ceiling was concave in both rooms
and about 10 feet high. The stench of guano
filled our noses the moment we stepped into
the cave. About 300 bats were in the cave, all
being Macrotus californicus except one 'Lepto-
mycteria' (?).
The other cave containing bats was near
the top of the hill and also on the N.W. side.
It was found to contain only Macrotus califor-
nicus and none were taken.