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than a hundred yards from the
house. Montana mine is
just across the river in front of
the house. This afternoon I entered the tunnels and found Glossophaga and one Carollia. One bat, Glossophaga No. 12109, was taken.
Later in the afternoon I went about one-half of a mile up the river and up on the side of a mountain to the Tempisque mine. Several tunnels had nothing but Glossophaga in them. Finally we entered a tunnel and followed it back about sixty feet to where it branched off to the left. There were many Glossophaga in this tunnel. I saw one white one. About fourteen feet beyond the left turn I found a globe full of water. I could go no farther so turned back. On the way out I captured the albino Glossophaga No. 12111.
When I got out of the tunnel I looked up in the low trees to see if any of the bats were there that had flown out of the mine. Clinging to one of the low limbs was a bat larger than any I had seen in the mine. He was