El Salvador field notes, v4500
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the darkest folds of bent over or titer broken banana leaves in the heavier growths along the streams that I found bats, The yellow facial markings of croderma were very conspicuous and could be seen nearly as far as one could see the bat. These little bats were usually found asleep. They were hanging head down, their sharp claws clinging to the ribs of the banana leaves. Those seen and taken were about 4 to 7 feet from the ground. When awakened they dropped their heads and even extended their nose dorsally above the plane of their back as they twisted nervously from side to side. Once I found two hanging together but unfortunately one flew away when the other dropped at the shot from my H20 shot pistol. Although I went to the tree or clumps of trees where I saw the second bat fly and killed one there that was awake and disturbed which proved to be a female mating the male already taken, the evidence of a mated pair