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Museum
Plow
1973
Journal
105
Catarina Newville Hayesleged, Dept. Plb.
Hays, Paraguay
30 Mar
Desert (both)
lot of mosquito about as
31 Mar
clear warm. night temp in 70s. not much wind.
4 not in the traps, all in the nest. They seem to
especially like the damp tunnel and caves place here,
though elsewhere this has proved to a rather
sterile habitat. one new rat. one of the steel traps
was sprung again, but nothing remained. Need
larger traps. left about 1PM. Post was open by mid
morning. all rat, bat! When I released the bats
we noticed a strange chip. I placed them all, feed
down, on a quebracho (where the molossid caught it).
The molossid turned around so that they were head
up before climbing up. The Noctilis went up
feet first, also the molossid went into the post
hole with no fear, but when the Noctilis trap at
them was much squeaking. The Noctilis eventual
flew off, mostly in ever-enlarger circular
patterns, seemed confused. The Molossus
seemed to know where they were - wow at least so
that was obvious sniffing photos.
Stopped at El Centro Apostoleio (km 128) briefly
to deliver some stuff to Faste, show.
21 km. Newville Hayesleged Dept Plb
Hays, Paraguay [Roger & I] stopped here a
month or so ago. Set up 3 nets over roadsides.