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Quast
1948
Pteronathus baileyi
2
June 17 Went Llano de Hiley, 50 ft. Baja California
set in dry lake bottom. The juvenile and immature
specimens were released, leaving the series # 363-369
incl. Of the two female specimens, one had 2 embryos
on the right side of 7mm, and the other none. This
species was caught in the lake-bottom proper and
also around small hillocks of sand intermediate
between it and the sand dunes. Growing in the
lake bottom in a fairly even cover and on the
small sand hillocks as several kinds of very
short bushes from 3 inches to a foot high. In
hillocks beneath these bushes, Pteronathus baileyi
burrows are common and their tracks are every-
where in the more sandy places.
When many of the specimens were released from
the live traps they continued to stay around camp
and became at ease around the place, eating and
sitting under the table and around our feet with
no apparent fear at our presence. Several specimens
that were almost too cold to move this morning
were covered with a piece of paper and showed
a great attraction for it later when they would
move to follow it when we changed its position.
Minimum temperature last night was 53° F. Several
very young specimens were caught, still having
very fine hair with their pink skin showing through.
June 19 San Jorge, 5 ft., 25°44'N, 112°02'SW, Baja California
Two caught last night, one female in Museum.