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three lires up the Monte Mayor
river to the Misericordia mine.
It is two and a half miles north of
Monte Mayor, I was there
last spring but found only
Glossophaga and Carolia. The
tunnel is about 50 feet long.
They found four genera in
the tunnel, Phyllostomus Nos. 12112,
12113, 12114, 12115, 12116, 12117, 12118, 12120,
12121, 12122, 12123, 12124, and 12125.
Chionycteris rubiginosa No. 12119,
Carollia Nos. 12126, 12127, and 12128.
Glossophaga, No. 12129.
December 14, 1926 -
Today I worked on the specimens
brought in from the Misericordia
mine last night.
Clear day. 7 A.M.-70° F.
December, 15, 1926 - Another
trip was made to the Tempique
mine this morning. We found
the large bats in the mine to
be Artibeus. They were
quite gregarious in habits and
we found them clinging to
the pockets in the rocks at the
highest points on the ceiling or
roof of the tunnel. They braced