El Salvador field notes, v4501
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10/27/25 57 October 27, 1925- Mouse traps set under the loose rocks at the base of the rocky cliff and others set by brooks and among the leaves caught three Peromyscus. From twenty traps set in the best places I could find caught only the three Peromyscus. (10619) The ants had destroyed the skin of one and partly ruined [illegible] other, (10620) although the trap had broken the skull of the other the mouse was still alive! At one place in the cliff was a crevice where I heard some bats. By the light from my flash I shot one which proved to (10622) be a Gray leaf-nosed bat. Another trap at the base of the cliff had a Blue-tailed rat but the ants had destroyed its skin. Our hacienda house is tile roofed and the ceiling of our room is of canvas or heavy cloth. (10623) Between the canvas and the tile roof [illegible] are about one hundred and fifty Brown leaf nosed bats. I put up two. In the evening two native boys brought in a cottontail which they caught in a hole. It was badly torn and the mandible was broken but I put it up. I spent part of the night hunting with a carbide lamp. I saw one about[illegible] but was unable to shoot it.