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Bats with young 

on skinning one of the females I found the teat to which the young one was fastened had a well developed set of milk glands. 

Several females flew heavily away carrying their young [[strikethrough]] which [[/strikethrough]] 3 of which were afterwards found scattered in the rocks a few yards away where they had been carried by the parent. These however were nearly large enough to fly. 

These vampires are very abundant near Ameca and I was told that they kill great numbers of cattle by biting & making wounds which are then soon filled with maggots & the animal soon dies. 

One district near there is so infested by them that the cattle are driven out at beginning of rainy season to prevent their all being killed in this way. From the mines I secured two other bats one being a smaller species of the extensile tongue kind. 

The morning of the June 23d finding that I could not take all my outfit in the diligencia I hired a man with 2 saddle animals & pack mule & started for Guadelajara. A late start brought