El Salvador field notes, v4515
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pasture above, I came on to an Ivory-billed Woodpecker and got it after some difficulty (as he) it was not particularly shy. It was a male with red throat patches and white iris therein differing from the female of Olds. yesterday, I did not intend finding what appears to be a Possum nest. While charging thru the gross I came into a globular bust composed of large leaves of white fluffy appearance and somewhat spherical in general shape & a mouse bust. I looked it nevertheless and out jumped an old Possum as big as a rat. (House rat) She was weasel color and looked like a rodent but the young that were clinging to her when disrupted because thru the weed stalks by hanging on their tails which were extremely flexible and wrapped completely around the Twig's the action of the