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Quack
1948
Journal
146
June 30 Santa Rosalia, 10° ft., Baja California (Minaka Zonta)
lightening to the east over the Gulf at dark. Min-
imim temperature 74°.
Visited a mine this afternoon lying west of
this town in the same arroyo at a distance of about
2 miles by road from the center of town. The name
of the abandoned mine is “Mine La Zonta” and it
is composed of a single horizontal tunnel of about
4½ by 5½ feet and 100 to 150 yards in length. Its
entrance is about 200 yards up a small tributary
entering the Santa Rosalia Arroyo on the north side.
The entrance had caved in, leaving about a two
foot high
space through which we had to crawl
into the shaft. As we passed down the tunnel we
had to traverse another caving at half its length
and then a pit about 50 feet from its end. The
pit was about 25 feet deep and led to another other
lower level which had been blocked by the storm
of 1931. When we had gone about 30 yards from
the entrance I saw several bats flying away
from us into the mine interior. We pursued them
to the end of the shaft where we found that their
number had multiplied to about 20. We were suc-
cessful in netting only three of them which turned
out to be Leptonycteris. Upon nearing the entrance,
on the way out we saw the large group of bats
that had flown past us congregating about the
mine entrance, a few flying out. Dr. Benham was