1927 Hacienda Venecia, Tepit., San Salvador, Salvador June 28-29, 1927 - These two days I spent on the Hacienda of Sr. Don Jorge Melendez [illegible] for squirrels (Holotype) Sciurus v. Ovarcataoides) but I never saw a squirrel. I was fortunate to see two Dasyprocta in captivity. While feeding these animals sat on their up like a squirrel and held the pieces of pineapple on which they were feeding with their front feet. When I frightened the agoutis threw up the long thairs along their back very much like a porcupine does, to protect itself.