El Salvador field notes, v4501
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11/13/1925 November 13, 1925 - Today I prepared to leave for Ciudad Barrio but we could get no open. November 14, 1925 - I left for the Monte Cristo mine with my boy. We collected several hundred bats which were mostly Brown leaf-nosed bats and Yellow leaf-nosed bats, also there were two Grizzly bats and one Gray leaf-nosed bat. As we were coming out of the tunnel I noticed a bat in_ on of the lateral tunnels that seemed to have quite long ears. I shot it with my shot pistol after we had quickly spread the net over the mouth of the lateral. In the net we caught another. These bats I called long eared bats. They were not nearly so active as_ were the Brown leaf-nosed and Yellow leaf-nosed bats. November 15, 1925 - Yet, not able to get away to Ciudad Barrios I made another trip to Monte Cristo. Mr. Swanquist told me of another tunnel on the north side of_ Monte Cristo hill which he called the Monte Cristo drain tunnel. I found it impossible to ride my mule along the brush overgrown trail, which led to the tunnels opening. The mouth of the tunnel was caved in but we managed to get down_ through an opening where the tunnel had caved in, just.