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Koford
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Saccopteryx bilineata
bat-VT
August 21, 1956 B.C. Island, Canal Zone
Between buttermess on big tree on East Van Tyne trail saw
about 40 total, 30 being in one area on S side tree (in
spike ladder). (Aug. 18 saw about 35 in same sector
of tree.) took Toth flash photographs of bats on trunk:
Two white dorsal stripes.
September 8, 1956 about 40 in same sector of trunk,
about 8 on SE side trunk. Moderately active & alert. Two white
stripes on back (Saccopteryx bilineata ?).
October 2, 1956 Saw about 4 on big tree on AMA
(second tree on trail). Sept. 29 and Sept. 22. Today usual
number on big tree on East Van Tyne trail, about 30 on
S side, 8 on SE, 4 on N.
August 22, 1956 Took photos of group between butter-
esses on Big Tree on Van Tyne trail (3 1/4 x 4 1/4). About 40 bats.
November 3, 1956 Netted #71828. At least 25 on tree be-
tween buttermess. I saw one with band on wing (sent by Hall
group ?).
October 31, 1956 Always half a dozen or well under
leaves of east end of SE wall of old Batch office. Odd
somewhat Tadarida-like.
November 2, 1956 There are about 6 or seven under leaves
on S side of ZMA house today as usual. When she perched on
vertical wall tail up as well as nose [?] . 1/ hour 3 hanging
3 +/- apart on rafters over boats under sheet metal roof. 1/2 hr
evening saw a bandslave on S side by Noshins Bldg. +
(netted it). #58-81501, O7, testes protruding. Released.
Took some on SE side old Batch office Nov. 12, 1956, 4 released.