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Paul DeBenedetti
1964
Jan 4
memories and recollections - Mex. trip.
Dec 14
of the road. The campsite was where a dirtroad turned left of the highway (going south) 0.8 mi N of the junction to Santiago, Wagarit. Here in some large puddles we saw a few leopard frogs, and someone caught a Sceloporus on the highway at night. The area is grassy, open thorn forest with a few areas of lush thick forest on the east side of the road. It seemed much drier on the west side's. Everything was quite dewey at night. The red bats were found flying in the tunnel, and weve scared out once by our lights. About an hour later when the truck arrived we caught them. I checked another larger tunnel but there was nothing under it.
(Dec 20
I woke up early in the morning and Elvey came over and said he wanted a net for some bats. He disappeared for about an hour. I tried skinning the bats, then took a net and with Elvey went down after the bats. They were about 1/2 mile down the road, and we didn't get to them. While I was "putting up" the bats Elvey caught a few Celithemis-like dragonflies, which broke quite easily. By the time I had finished "skinning" the bats there must have been about 50-70 of them flying about the truck. Then Elvey and I went off to check the report of zebras (butterfly) in a corn field. We couldn't find the cornfield, but I saw and missed