El Salvador field notes, v4500
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1927 P.I. Colima, Dept., Cuscatlan, Salvador January 20, 1927- We arose early to catch the six o'clock train from San Salvador to La Torba the station nearest to Colima. At LaTorba we were met and taken in an automobile to the Colima hacienda. Our equipment was delivered at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Not more than three hundred yards north of the hacienda house was the Rio Tempa swift and deep in many places. The river flowed between two nearly perpendicular walls of rocks perhaps seventy five feet high. The river flat in this region was very extensive. To the east of the house was a pasture, perhaps sixty acres, and beyond were large fields of sugar cane. In other directions we found the usual type of grazing land so characteristic of the country. This contained "quacht" trees and carbon brush. I set snap traps in a rock wall which encircled a banana grove to the north of the house. Scotinomys No. 12367 was taken early in the evening. Uroderma Nos. 12368 and 12369 were shot where they were found hanging in the most shady places