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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