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Quast
1948
Macrotes californicus 2
April 30 Mission San Ignacio 500 ft. Baja California.
was captured in a hand net by Murray
and we took it outside to see if it could
take off from level ground, having heard
that some bats need to drop to start
flying. The Macrotes was placed on flat
ground and it immediately took off
without any apparent difficulty although
it must have been tired from being
pursued about a small room for five
minutes. The three Macrotes were in the
same room that Mystia yumanensis were
captured in last night. Very little if
any eyeshine was detected in the light
of the flashlight from the bats about 5 ft
away.
May 5 Bats
May 4 1/2 mile S Mulege 12+ ft. Baja California.
[Written at Baki's Concepcion] Ten or twenty
taken by group in large cave in backs of
mission. Associated with Mormoops megalophylla
and Leptonycteris. Bats were hanging in second
room of cave about 150 feet from surface. I
put up three males (#128, 129, 130).
May 20 La Jolla, Calif.
about 20 seen in large mine about 2 miles
by road back towards Triunfo. They were
hanging in a spot about 50 yards from the