Mammals of the San Gabriel Mountains of California

by Terry A. Vaughan

One was taken in 1946 beneath a woodpile on the campus of Norton School, two miles northeast of Claremont, and examined by Dr. W. E. Pequegnat.

Family VESPERTILIONIDAE

Myotis yumanensis sociabilis H. W. Grinnell

Yuma Myotis

A female was taken in lower San Antonio Canyon, 2800 feet elevation, on September 27, 1951.

Myotis evotis evotis (J. A. Allen)

Long-eared Myotis

This species was observed and collected at several stations ranging from 2800 feet elevation in San Antonio Canyon, to Blue Ridge at 8200 feet, and down the desert slope to 6000 feet at Jackson Lake. This distribution encompasses most of the chaparral and yellow pine forest associations. Within these areas, however, this bat shows marked habitat preferences.

Woodland habitats seem to be preferred by evotis. At several ponds in lower San Antonio Canyon this bat was observed repeatedly as it foraged over the water and coursed low between rows of alders and Baccharis. At Blue Ridge in September, 1951, these bats foraged approximately six feet above the ground beneath the canopy of coniferous foliage and between the trunks of the trees.