Niger Pluv 1973 Journal 177 275 km NW Villa Hayes, Dept. Pte Hayes, Paraguay 25 Oct Big night for Tadarida. No sign of the Artibeus or Desmodus. Totals were 34 small molossids & 1 Molossus, 3 Eumops, 2 Noctilio leporinus, 25 Lasion, ago 1 L. lorealis (?), & 5 Eptesicus. Alvarenga & friend went out across the river (by old Chaara) ran into a herd of 200 white lipped peccary (his estimate). They killed no spent 1/2 hr in trees waiting for the others to leave. Saw a dozen or so foes, killed 4. all the gray Cerdocyus. Day dawned hazy, SW wind. distinctly cooler - 26 Oct dailly max. about 35. Rain. Mixtur of dust, humidity & smoke in the air thick enough that seen never unpleasant the only partly cloudy. By noon its winds died down. Alvarenga is badly sick, so we decided to head back. Left 10 AM. 227 km NW Villa Hayes, Dept. Pte Hayes Paraguay stopped briefly for lunch & to complete my Myotis nigricans sample. Caught 4 of 'em just what I needed. Saw but did not try for a Tadarida - all bats active agility required. Left 12:15 PM, arrived Asuncion 5:30 PM. Perlaleta, Asuncion Paraguay 2 Oct picked up one of the weird frozional snakes? sandy soil in its garden. Terrible weather. hot humid sometimes threatening 28 Oct 2 sets up over swimming pool, which basically