Paul DeBenedicti 1960 Jan 6 memories and recollections-Mex. trip. (Dec 20 (no one was home). Rich shot a spoon-billed heron here. As it started to get dark we discovered a large kingfisher (a posidly rave- I don't know what kind it was) which we chased for about 3 miles along the channel. During this time we saw the splash of an animal submerging. The guide said it was a crocodile. When we got back to the landing it was getting dark. We paid for the ride (50 pesos), and the guide took up to a banana plantation further south along the coast. We went out [illegible] the road to Playa Maluchen (there is a hotel at the end) and turned left along the beach, towards Puerto Villarelo. Once we pass the small villages, the air was filled with bats, apparently of two types. One was a small dark species. The other was a large pale brown animal. Rich shot one of these from the truck, It is apparently a fish-eating bat (fide Gavy) as determined by the corp the tail formed. The inland side of the beach along here appears to be low trees and tall reeds here. Finally we reached a [illegible] forested area, and the road turned into this. We are following a well-traveled truck route, that is submerged at high tide. In a cornfield here we located, by their eye shine, two racoons. Then we went up to a banana