Catalogue and journal, v544
Page 119
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E. M. Brock 1955 June 15 Ingram Canyon, 5.4 m NW, Westley, Stanislaus Co., Calif. Left at noon with Jerry Cooke (and his station wagon) and Allen Ziegler for Coral Hollow (Alameda, San Joaquin Co.) and adjoining areas. Drove through Turmane and on Coral Hollow road to Tracy to Wesley, left Wesley and went into Ingram Canyon. There, set out 50 snap traps each and about 10 Sherman live traps. In the evening we watched for bats flying over and managed to shoot one down. It was a Peripatellis hispans. We had also looked in various mine shafts and caves for bats during the day. Back in Coral Hollow we found a cave and collected a single Cynomhirus from it. June 16 Collected all our traps which contained one Dijodongus, a [illegible], Peromyscus and Rhithrodontomys. Mourning doves and Valley quail are very abundant in the canyon. Dow black tail jackrabbit, ambolor cottentails, loghead shrikes, burrowing owls and many beechy ground squirrels. Drove to Wesley and to Patterson where we took the turnoff to Del Puerto and Los Mochos which leads to Livermore and Mt Hamilton. Checked all caves along the way. One bat did escape from us in one of the caves. Drove to Westvaco mines in Santa Clara Co. where we