Field notes, v1408
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Koford 1957 Chiroptera - General 5 17 April 1957 2 mi. N. Summit, Canal Zone Mr. Bouche showed me an old mine tunnel at Sartoriello Mine, reached by 1 1/2 mi. hike from Railroad Highway. More than 100 bats in cave. Mostly Carollia (live with jurs.), many Lonchophyllus (with jurs.), and a few Diaea Chilonycotis. 9 February 1957 Portobelo, Panama Lucy & I went with Col. Glodell in army LCM. In room of old fort I saw about 6 bats & captured 2. About 10 escaped from coco palm, from foliage. About 6 small bat- tered (= Myonycteris?) seen in small arms of cave in high- est part of an old fort on hill. Gambosa, C.Z. 1 May 1957 Investigated 10' drain. pipe tunnels 200' & 300' long at Core Drilling warehouse of Dredging Division (near golf course). Found 100+ Carollia and many Glossophaga in these tunnels. Myotis nigricans in warehouse lobby. 2 May 1957 with Charles Hanley visited Chilibrillo Cave m. Chilibo, Panama. Found thousands of Carollia perspicillata, 500 Mois Phyllostomus hastatus, 300 Pteronotus, 300 Glossophaga several Lonchophyllus, soricina, several Desmodurus, and a few Sorceryngs Lailiata. 1 June 1957 Barro Colorado Is, Canal Zone. Dr. Sally Hughes-Schneider told me that today she saw a snake swallow a bat. As she passed a termite nest near J-6, a coiled up snake fell out of a termite nest next to the trail. The snake was about 5 feet long, dark brown, light below (Chimin?). Snake was coiled around a bat. Eventually (she watched 10 min.) snake swallowed bat down. She saw another bat go out and in same hollow termitate nest.