than grass. jack hunted for about an hour, saw one rabbit, 3 poor wills, a few bats. No bats night roosting in the abandoned thatched hut along the road. Sprinkled rain during early evening but just enough to settle the dust. The sun rose about supper time. Not gradually but by a sudden surge as though flood gates had been opened. The first wave of nearby water could be heard coming and was easily visible when it arrived. June 28 Nothing in traps. Went hunting in morning to the quebrada above the local hacendado, hoping to find in it some little bat caves, but none. Only bird worth shooting was 1 kingbird. In afternoon went hunting along the road about 2 hours, but nothing worth shooting. A few small Crotaphops seen (almost certainly sulciostriis) and several quail (but no longer need them). Quite a bit of the local terrain is waist-high reeds and grass, but no seedeaters in it. No swallows. June 29 Nothing in traps. Left about 8 with one of the local hacenderos to "the bat caves." After a few steps to look at fossils that he knew about we took a trail down through a stand of bamboo, plantains, and corn to the Pajas river, and there overhanging the river was a 12 inch tree with a hollow termite nest about 15 feet up in it - a 10-inch opening on the bottom side of it. With some prodding about 14 large