Field notes, v1506
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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.