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that I was unable to determine
its characters. I saved the skeleton
or better what remained of it No. 10321.
I went back to the hollow tree
where I had collected most of
my white-lined bats (Saccopteryx). There
were no bats in the tree but a
female was clinging to a near by
tree. The bark of the tree was
white and she showed up quite
plainly. I shot her with a twenty
two shot pistol. A small band
of spider-monkeys (Ateles) dashed off
through the trees ahead of me.
August 18, 1925 - Weather
conditions the same as usual. The
chief thing of importance to day
was finding an arboreal mouse in a wren's nest (Thryophilus
pleurostictus). I have not endeavored
to classify the mouse. It's No. is 10323.
As one of the fellows pecked into the
nest the mouse ran out and would
have run down the small tree to
the ground had she not run quickly
to the base of the tree. When I came
up the little fellow was lying on
the limb about two feet from the
nest. Its eyes were large and black.
This mouse very probably feeds on the
eggs of this wren. This nest was
about seven feet from the ground
and was of a thin fine glassy
structure. I shot the mouse with
a shot pistol and saved the skin
and skeleton;