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P. PEARSON
1950
bats emerged from it. Some of these landed in
[illegible] and I shot 7 of them: 3061-3067.
jacklighted back to the bararo plantations, a total
distance of about 8 or 10 kilometers. Saw 5 rabbits (shot 2),
about 20 porcupines, and in and near the bararo patch
saw a few large and noisy bats. These flew quite
close to me with loud fluttering sounds. Saw no
other mammals.
The camp boy (Paulino) brought in a bird, the first
he has gotten with his slingshot. It was Convectrum,
a genus I have been looking for but hadn't seen yet.
June 30
Nothing in traps. Left after breakfast for Villanueva
via the horsetrail to look for smallsma, seedeaters, and
Crypsopygia. Returned via auto road. In this 20
kilometers afoot saw not one of the 3 species. Shot 2
Crypspyga, but both were zuleicrostris. Saw a dozen or
so others, all looking like zuleirostris. Saw grand,
prospecta, little done, saw small cat? footprints.
On the way back from Villanueva looked in many
culverts under the road, most of them galvanized
corrugated pipe just big enough to crawl through
and about just longer than the road is wide (1 car
width. Over half of those examined had bats (3072-3084).
two species mixed in one of them: A tendency for males of
the short-eared one (3075 etc) to hang alone, several
females (preg + nursing) in one. All seemed alert,
not torpid. The temp in the culverts was rather