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JESimpson,
1938.
69.
270± ft., Rancho de Costa Rica, Rio Sonora, Sonora.
May 3, 1938, continued.
taken in the fields but common outside, and the
harvest-mice were not at all found at field-
borders but the most common mouse in the corn
and wheat fields.
Put up specimens and then repaired the bat-
trap by putting wires more taunt and closer (1')
to water in effort to get the early flying pipistrels.
The we got 1 mastiff bat, 3 brown bats, and 8 Mex-
ican free-tail bats, we caught no pipistrels.
May 4, 1938
Put up the brown bat series and the remaining
three mastiff bats which all were kept alive since
night of May 2, 1938. Many of the Mexican freetails
had escaped; the remainder were freed.
The specimens of May 2, 1938: Eptesicus fuscus: ♂ 300-
304, 305, 308: no emb.
303, 306-7 and ♀ 275, [illegible], 277,
and Eumops perotis:
as skeletons only: ♂ 309, 310 and ♀ 311.
One additional mastiff bat Dr. Benson took from
the trap in the morning; probably in tank all night
having been trapped after we retired. This bat was
in sad condition—wet and appearing fatigued and
half-drowned; it was hung on a cloth under our
camp-mesquite tree where we watched it while working
on specimens yesterday. The bat dried, but continued to
hang in camp—responding viciously to Mexican teasings—
until dusk when it showed some life and finally took