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11/4/1925 63
November 4, 1925- With the aid of Van and a mooa I collected
with the net again at Monte Cristo.
We drove the bats ahead of us
by knocking them down as
they attempted to pass. We
set the net near a small stoke
and made a drive, but all
the bats flew up into the stoke
and the was empty. A drive
in the stoke netted about
fifty bats, two of which were
Grizley bats and two were Gray
leaf-nosed bats. The others were
Brown leaf-nosed bats and Yellow leaf-
nosed bats, with the former the
most numerous. We made
another set farther back for
a second drive in the main
tunnel. While Van was
making the drive he picked
my second Franz Joseph bat from
the perpendicular wall. This
drive netted over fourhundred
Brown leaf-nosed bats and Yellow leaf-nosed
bats, some of the Yellow leaf-nosed
bats were shedding. I selected
a series showing the change in
pelage but most of them escaped.
The best specimen I have to show
that change is no. 10667. The
juvenile bats were just leaving
their mothers. We saw several
hanging from the roof of the
tunnel.
November 5, 1925- Left
for San Salvador in the afternoo