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11/15/1925
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inside the water was quite deep it
was over my boots but the presence
of many bats in the tunnel led me
on. Soon the water decreased in
depth and we were walking on
solid footing again. The bats were
there by the hundreds, yes, thousands.
All of which I saw were Brown leaf-
nosed bats and Yellow leaf-nosed bats. There
was a continual dripping of cold
water from overhead. We turned
off in a lateral driving most of
the bats ahead of us. We tried to
use the net once but the bats we
cought looked like drowned rats so
I put on gloves and picked my
desired forms from the [illegible] cold
damp walls. The Yellow leaf-nosed bats
and the Brown leaf-nosed bats were about
equal in numbers. One bat No. 10682
with white wing tips and a white band
across the shoulder is obviously an
albino. I caught two and saw
four more Whiskered bats. In
the main tunnel at Monte Crist I
cought three more long-eared bats, two
of which were in the same lateral
where I got two yesterday.
November 16-19, 1925
Traveling from Divizadero to
Ciudad Barrios.