El Salvador field notes, v4501
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11/15/1925 67 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.