Paul DeBenedetti 1961 Jan 15 (Dec 21) memories and recollections - Mex. trip $[illegible] got a good coconut, two of the others came over to us and said they found a room full of bats. We got our butterfly nets and went over near the hotel to investigate. In a old abandoned brick house one room was sealed off except for a door and a small hole in one of the interior walls. In it few about 20 large brown-black bats.[illegible] We netted three of them, but one got loose. We also saw a gray (?Norway) rat. While I was trying to get them out of the net, one of them bit me. After we numbedled them, we discovered they are vampire bats. (There are about 8 open (windows) rooms in the building, but there was nothing in them. Harvey Welsh said he had been in the building during the day but hadn't seen any animals at all.) The bat bite bothered me, but I am kind of afraid of the Mexican doctors so I did nothing but let it bleed and put mercuricome on it. After this we decided to use Gary's spot-light and go out and get some iguanas. We went to some tree at the north side of the city and there got quite a few, much the same way we have been getting them before- climbing up and throwing them down. The iguanas are just as exposed as during the day, but none are active. We got a few Ctenosaurs from these trees too. Finally we went back to the hotel, got some