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Hooper 1937
Dec 24
Claymolds mine, 5200 ft., 4 1/2 mi. SW. Bishop, Inyo Co., Cal.
The mine is [illegible] consisted of a single shaft tunnel into a white "limestone lips" rocks.
The rock was however hard almost marble like ..
The temperature outside the mine was 48° F. About 90 feet down the tunnel I found the first bat an adult C & (arrow) Carpentarius rafinesquii.
The temperature at this part of the tunnel was 53° F.
The animal was found in lying flat against the roof of the tunnel supports himself by polices [illegible] attached anteriorly to a small rock crevices and feet similarly attached posteriorly. This animal as did all others taken, began flapping violently and "hissing" when picked from the roof.
It seems to me that this position was in which this and all other Carpentarius