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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.