Guatemala field catalog and journal, v4288
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24 another hour with no success, on the way back, for breakfast I stopped by the missionaries and he asked some of the men there if they knew of "niƱos dormidos" the local term, some did but most of these had only ever seen a few. The species here is described as black with white or grey striped or lines, this sounds different than anything I've so far encountered. After breakfast I headed up the blue road back to the house where I'd seen mammal hides before. I found the owner and after a bit of bargaining bought two large hides for $2.50 (for both), and a small squirrel skin was thrown in for good measure. There was on the two hides I bought appear to be grey fox, and coati, they are somewhat stiff but have been tanned. I was told that "gordo", fat, was used. There was a third skin there, of a stocky animal about coati size with larger claws, and a very thick skin which was only dried and was very stiff, it had a definite pattern of dark on light on the neck, and may be some sort of ant-eater or something I don't knows. I then went down to a finca "Rancho Sinaloa" where I was told that there were sometimes one or