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1927
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El Tablon, Lake Guija, Sept, Santa Ana, Salvador
them with my light. The Otoryloms ran down the horizontal limb, jumped off about four feet to the ground and ran into a pile of lava rocks. The Nyctoloms ran up the horizontal twig, with squirrel like agility, off onto a vine and disappeared some thirty feet above in the dense foliage of a tree.
The trap line that I strung in Mal Payes yesterday had nothing. I shifted traps to where I saw the rats last night. More specimens were destroyed by ants on my line back of camp. While standing in the jungle near the edge of the lake today I saw a Dasypocta come hopping along a trail out of the brush, just as I was ready to fire on it I saw two more close behind so I turned to them and got the two with one shot. The other dashed off sporting.
Also I killed a Scirus near the edge of the lake.