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but not high enough to stand up in. In domed section about 40 feet back I found a mass of bats hanging to the roof like a swarm of bees. They were packed in a body 3 or 4 feet long and a foot to 18 inches wide, hanging head down. As I approached many flew out and circled about in the cave, so for fear of scaring them I backed part way out & shot into the mass with the Aux. three times. At each shot a mass of bats dropped but a few still clung to the roof when I went up & picked them off. I gathered up my pockets full of bats and outside counted 92 of them - 4 Nyctinomys and the rest a little yellow bat

Outside I saw 5 [[strikethrough]] Cl [[/strikethrough]] Coronyrhinus pallescens flying about in the sunlight, probably driven out of the cave by my shots. Some of these went back into crevices high up in the cliff and some into an old hollow tree. I shot one at the tree but the rest escaped.

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