1927 P.13 Barra de Santiago, Dept., Ahuachapan, Salvador We came to soil that even the highest tidal waters could not reach. At this point the mangrove gave away to vegetation characteristic of the arid lower Tropical Zone. N.O.S. went out through the colcol palms toward a fresh water hole while I followed edge of the mangroves, N.O.S. had not gone far when he flashed two Raccoons, Procyon cancrivorus, We shot one and the other ran off a few paces stopped and [illegible] started back to where its mate had been slain. This foolish trick caused it to loose its life too. The first proved to be a female and the latter was a male. A few feet further along hit until he shot another raccoon of this small species out of a tree. Along the edge of the mangroves and fresh I killed an opossum Didelphis mesamericanus and saw two raccoons.