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C. Koford
Carollia perspicillata
5 April 1957 Ft. San Lorenzo Canal Zone
200a+. Cave went in perhaps 100'. I went in 50'. Walls
about 10'-8' across at bottom, 7' to ceiling. Bats
in irregular bunches in wide crotch in
celing. Limestone (?) stalactites stobctites on
some walls. Wet floor, often muddy. (I found
a Natsalu and 50+ blossophaga in same cave).
Some C.p. imm., so many pregnant ff, some
o7 o7. I captured 1 large jwr., 9 ff, and 3 o7 o7.
Jwr. f 8gms.-forearm 31 mm.-well furred.
f 17gm - fore. 42'1/2 - lactating - nipple
2'1/2 long x 2wide, with spheroid ; l. ovary 2'1/2x1'1/2
Imm. f 18gms. (gray fur) - fore. 42'1/2- nipples <1/2 mm.
ad. f 24gm., f. 42'1/2-nip. 2'1/2 wide x1, black tip ;
valva mod. pigm. 1 emb. c-R 2-7 (both segments
& finely haired.
ad. f 24 gm., f. 44'1/2 - nip, 2'1/2wide x1, block-
1 emb. c-R 2-7 (dark hair follicles look somewhat
ad. f 22gm., f. 42 - uterus elong. (12 mm. bladder
dust to tip lead, dark red; nipples 7 wide x3,
black, flaccid; lactating. Vulva slight pigm.
ad. f 28 gm., f. 42'1/2 - nip. 2'1/2 wide, turgid, block,
naked around ; 1 emb. c-R 31 (6 gms. w/o
membrane + placenta, wet), well haired.
ad. f 28 gm., f. 44 - nip. 2 '1/2wide, turgid, black-lore
2'1/2mm wide area around. 1 emb. c-R 30, well
haired block.
Imm. f 19gms., f. 44 mm.- gray fur. nipples not
enlarged. But blood in uterus & red spot R. ovary
+ vulva mod. pigment.
ad. f 1427 CBK - also 1 emb. c-R 2-9, haired.