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Hooper (1937)
Dec 26
Cheswold mine, 5200 ft., 4 1/2 mi. s. w. Bishop Imp. 6.
2 1/2 inches long, which had been [illegible] drilled, for dynamite sticks. The animal fitted snugly into the hole and was hanging head down. The poles were used to hold the body close to the rocks.
A small free space existed above the backs, it is interesting to speculate how the animal could have hung up in such a position. Certainly, it could not have been accomplished by the regular way, but must have first hung up on the outside of the hole and secondarily crawled in.
While handling the bat (an adult M) the animal moved its wings very slowly in a movement which seems to be very much like that in flight. I noted the movement of the humerus