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Quast
1948
Journal
81
May 24 Las Cuevas, 23°34'N, 109°39'W, Baja California
wide and the roof over the entrance was about
150 feet above the floor. This cave was about
100 yards south of the first cave and also in
the east cliff of the arroyo and also facing south.
The roof of the first room was higher than the
entrance and domed like that of a cathedral.
Wasp nests were just visible on the top of
the concave portion. Inwardly the roof dropped
sharply to about fifty feet and then gradually
towards the end of the cave in two passages.
This cave was about 150 feet deep; but the only
bats seen were Macrotus californicus, which flew
from their roost in the roof of inward-most
passages out into the high domed portion to
circle spectacularly around the dome or
to drop back into the inner, lower parts
of the cave.
(chid)
The other cave visited was about 300 yards
from town and on the west side of the
arroyo. It too opened to the south and was
high and narrow. Dr. Benson and Tevis
investigated it, but found it to contain only
Macrotus californicus.
One Black Phoebe was seen in each of the
first two cave entrances.
The main activity of the people of the town
is growing vegetables which are irrigated by