El Salvador field notes, v4501
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11/6/1925 November 6-11, 1925 - These days were spent on a trip to San Salvador for equipment. November, 12, 1925 - Warm day. It rained [illegible] last night. Early this morning I left for the Ornegiro mines at Condecaran on mule back and accompanied by a boy on foot. In places the road was very slippery due to the rain last night. Once my mule slipped and I was forced to dismount hurriedly. In some soft mud in the trail we saw some tracks that were evidently made by a Tayra or some closely allied form. A little farther along where the well imprinted tracks of a Raccoon; this was a large animal. Also there were some weasel and rabbit tracks. In Condecaran I was met by Don Senior Manuel Basques who conducted me in the mine tunnel and through the mills. The tunnel was alive with bats but the arch was too high for my net to work successfully. However we caught several specimen of Whiskered bats and Brown leaf-nosed bats. The Brown leaf-nosed bats were more common near the mouth of the tunnel, and the Whiskered bats were abundant farther back. In the mills I saw Whiskered bats, Brown leaf-nosed bats, and Salvador brown bats (Peropterys) I collected me (Peropterys) for a record and in a house across the road from the mills I shot a ? Whiskered bat where several were flying about the room.