Field notes, v1600
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Seib, R. 1984 Cuetemaro to Los Tuxtlas UNAM, Veracruz, Mexico 3 Nov. that area. Anyway, the Los Tuxtlas station is outstanding virgin forest in the shape of a narrow rectangle, 5 km long. There are walkable narrow trails and much wildlife, including black harter monkeys, quite common. We netted this night cross a stream and a large cut trail, but only got Carollia castanea and Vampyressa nymphaea. Los Tuxtlas UNAM to Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico 4 Nov. Eating breakfast I was introduced to a Botanist, Rudolfo, by a herpetologist, Gonzalo Medina. I asked the botanist if he happened to have a tree where Saccopteryx bilineata roosted. He happened to know.... This is the most important numero uno best bet for Allison to get on this trip. After breakfast, we got a butterfly net and took a trail into the forest. Somewhere off the trail in that forest was a huge silkcotton, so it was a Ficus, a strangler fig. Anyway, there was a yellow rope ladder sort of dangling 100' down, and I was sort of -elected to climb 75' up. I did so, five times. The 2nd time I went up and dangled I caught four FF. No help to to Allison because the wing sacs are