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Quark
1948
Macrotus californicus
6
June 3 Losi Naran Jose del Cabo, 250+ ft. Baja California
Failed to mention yesterday that the Macrotus
californicus examined yesterday were perspiring. The
bats had been flying about the cave, and with
the outside heat, small beads of perspiration were
seen on their noses and between their eyes.
June 14 Mina Palmer del Medio, 400+ ft., 4 mi F.S.E. Pescadero, Baja California
About fifteen obtained here this afternoon from
an abandoned mine. The mine was composed of
a single horizontal shaft and was about 75 yd.
long, bending in an arc between openings on
neighboring sides of a hill. The horizontal
shaft broadened in its middle into a vertical
stope and was braced with cross timbers
and braced with planks in the ceiling. When
first seen the Macrotus were about 30 feet from
the opening, flying back into the mine as
they were approached and finally out of the
opposite end of the shaft to return to the
original entrance behind us. The M. californicus
were observed to make no noise when flying
except the soft fluttering of their wings. When
they returned to the first entrance after having
flown out of the other end of the mine they hung
within thirty feet of the opening and "peeled" back
towards the opening and flying out finally,
only a few individual daring to
fly past us back into the mine. I happened