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Koford
1957
Carollia perspicillata
17 April 1957
2 mi. N. Summit, Canal Zone
Fur color varies much, from rufous brown to dark chocolate brown.
♀ 19½ grms., fem. 44. Lactating. Nips 5x3¾ in naked area
10 mm. wide. Oozing milk, Uterus 10 mm. long (meas. to tip).
with one jiv. attached; jiv. 5½ grms., fem. 26.
♀ 17 grms., fem. 41. Also lactating, nips 5x4h. Vulv. mod.
pigmt.
with one jiv. 8½ grms, forearm 36, attached.
♀ wt. 21 fem. 42; lactating easily. Nipples black,
3x3 mm. ∆, involved area 10 mm. diam.; ut. 17 L x 7 W.
♀ wt. 18½, fem. 41. Nips tiny < ½ mm., unpigmented.
Vulv. mod. pigmt. 1 embr. C-R 12. Ut. 20 Lx5 wide (emptied).
on jiv. - 7½ gm., fem. 29 mm.; well furred, gray.
Smallest jiv., fem. 26, wt. 5½. Carried by fem. 36, wt. 8½ at?
1 May 1957
Gamboga, Gt Z:
In tunnel made of 10' diam. steel pipe, 200 ft. long, &
another 300 or + ft. long, many, perhaps 300 total not
including young carried by adults in flight. With
Glossophaga soricina (jivs.). Examined many bats:
♀ ad. - nip. 3w x 4 high, lactating; forearm 42, 20½ grms.
♀ jiv. hanging on above - fem. 39, 9¼ grms.
♀ ad. nip. 4x4, lact. - fem. 42, 18½ grms.
♀ ad. nips 2 w x 3L, lact. (black tips) - fem. 44, 22 grms.
Uterus not enlarged; vulva pigmented.
♀ velvety pigmt. - nip. 4x4, black, lact.; fem. 43-18½ grms.
♀ ad. nips 3x4, lact., black tips, flattened; fem. 43, 18 grms.
♀ jiv., fem. 41, 10 grms.