Niger plus 1972 56 Journal miss stobeli lugel, Dept. cordillera, Paraguay 12:04 to squeeze them. Brief the main passage, while it last, is a low ceiling'd room perhaps 30 ft sq in den. There were bats. Most of what we saw, all of what I could catch w.a hand net, were vampires. The floor in place was a pool of their black liquid feces the smell distinct. They were bolted in tight clusters individually spaced. Some were at the ceiling, some on the floor. They seemed prefer running as much as flying in avoiding us. They flew in front of us around us, but did not leave the cave as we expected. I saw a number smaller bats near the entrance but they would not allow me to approach. The large chiropters were unspeciably clear. I kept 5 vampires. We returned in the evening to put net in front of two of the three exits. The first bat calls were small glossophagine, around 7:30. A few vampire starter cance out started around 7:45 (after it became quite dark) as to # of glossophagine dropped off, the # of vampires rose. I collected no vampires. Unfortunately didn't look at them carefully until I'd released 10 or 12. When then