_Sex-ratio_
Tables 3 and 4 show the distribution of sexes for two subsections of
our sample. The ratio of males to females in the total sample was
nearly 1:1. There were differences in ratios between the three general
localities: the two northerly sites had fewer females than males, when
compared with the Cloudcroft samples. This is true for the samples of
adults, but not for the juveniles, where in each instance the females
predominated. We cannot absolutely explain these differences in ratios.
Possibly the data on adults reflect different patterns of activity among
the sexes so that adult females are simply not present in numbers where
we looked for them. They could be located underground, in connection
with "incubating" duties; if this is true it would account for the fact
that so few egg-clusters have been found in logs.