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H. Zinsser
Baha San Carlos, Sonora, Mexico
1954
82
April 26
in camp.
April 27
The most canyon to the west of the one in which
we have camped is wide, actually more of a pass
between the hills than a canyon proper. There are cist-filled
mangrove lagoons separated from the Bay by a sand
tier over while the road passes (see map). A short
distance up canyon there is an extensive grove of palm
trees. Bloodel looked for bats in the palms but without
success, as was our experience yesterday in the canyon
where our camp is located.
I spent two or three hours this morning working
in this wide canyon, and shot a number of Gremido-
phorus tigris. The usual separation is again evident
two: The acchi type (how C. burri) is in the now
narrow canyons and on the steeper hillsides, while tigris
inhabit the more open, level places.
Tonight Bloodel set a trammel net for bats at the
lagers of the two potholes,
Three about 20 miles of magist driving on the highway north of Guaymas - no luckes.
April 28
Eight bats were caught by the net (some taken out of
it last night), including a Ligiostellus, a Conopterusine,
an Epleaicus, a fruit-eating bat (Artibius) and two
kinds of nectar-eating bats. Also in the net in the
morning were a cardinal and a chipmunk (Calomys).
We spent most of the day in a rented, outboard-
powered boat investigating the islands between San
Carlos Bay and Guaymas for fish-eating bats.
Isla San Nicholas is little more than a vertical-
sided rock projecting from the water. There are a few
large cactus growing with shrubby plants atop the island,
but that is much quaint. Bloodel found evidence of