Field notes, v1472
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Marshall, 1945 Palau Nycticeus nycticorax Koror, 27 November On old dirt road lined with grass & with many puddles. Central part of Koror. Collected this specimen at night when drove up & saw it in headlights. kept right on hunting grasshoppers. Perhaps this same indiv. was the one seen in tree at dusk & flew towards this road. One was seen and shot at at dusk on a previous evening at this same spot in the road. Nycticorax caledonicus Koror I believe I saw a spotted one (im - or reddish-brown with buff spots) flushed from roadside in mangrove swamp N. end in evening. Same place saw one uniformly reddish- brown on dorsal surface in daytime. No black noted on plumage. Peleliu 6 December I was hunting bats in a clearing in forest E side, near lg. mangrove lagoon. 2 f's flew str. across clearing close together & I shot them both. 'Almost dark.' The skeleton was found on grassy dune near N. sand flats.