1927 4 El Tablon, Lake Guija, Dept, Santa Ana, Salvador May 26, 1927 - Last night it didn't rain so I took our native assistant and stuck out for Mal Payes. I let him carry the light as I had a touch of fever and a headache. I carried a flash light in my hand to keep from kicking all the lava lizards in the trail out by their roots. Jose never shifted a thing. Once when I held my flash light out toward the brush I caught a faint shine. As I walked up closer I saw that I was shining an Otorylomys. He was on a horizontal limb about three times the size of a lead pencil, and was fouched crosswise with his tail straight out as a ballancer. About three feet farther along the limb was a Nycotomy partly hidden behind a horizontal twig. For a minute they held their positions while I watched them. Instead of shooting I decided to learn something of their activities. I stepped up nearer and frightened