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5km E of Encarnación, Paraguay
16 Aug stew & I was sleeping among leaves
in the attic of the quinta we found
abundant bat droppings & 2 mummified
glass-winged bats (#318 & #319). We smelled,
heard & glimpsed a few molossids, but
they scuttled into a crack where we
could not reach them. I only put up
two nets but almost immediately
we caught 2 Mystis (#320-321). Then
one of the cats (there are several)
carried a molossid (#323) & we
carried 4 Artibeus in the net (#324 & #325,
& 2 released). A busy night - &
promising. Also saw 1 Redephtis.
It was in the hollow in closest
a broken branch, perhaps 1 ft in dia &
2' (at far as we could see) deep. Perhaps 10'
of the ground. Dair up the trunk was
a very clear worn area so the possum
appears to apparently uses the hollow branch
as a regular den. Weather is
still warm but grows cooler & is
cloudy. Survives, looks bad.