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Quest
1948
Journal
94
May 30 El Chorro, 800+ ft, 2 mi W Agua Caliente, Cape District, Baja Calif.
around the pond at the dam. The wash area and
canyon walls are grazed by cattle.
Shot bats last night here at dusk. All I
obtained was two female Dasypus ega. Dr.
Benson shot 2 Tadarid mexicana, 4 Tadarida
femorosacca and two Dasypus ega. Teris
and Murray got 4 Dasypus ega and one Pipis-
trellus hesperus.
The first bats seen were the small Pipis-
trellus hesperus, followed immediately by the
larger forms. All were flying east and by
the hundreds, it looking like a mass bat myrati;
for a period of a half hour. At first all were
flying high, even the Pipistrellus appearing to
be out of gunshot range, but before dark
they began to fly much lower, especially
within the canyon. The Tadarida femorosacca
were easily distinguished by their rapid flight,
large size, and long narrow wings. The
Dasypus ega, also of large size, had much
broader wings and flew much slower, and with
far less wingbeats per second. The larger Tadarida
were hard to hit and stop with no. 10's in
the 16 ga shotgun, a very large number of shells
being expended for the number of bats obtained.
A Least Grebe was seen in the pond above
the dam yesterday afternoon.