Field notes, v1518
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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