El Salvador field notes, v4501
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Mt. Cacagualique, Dept., San Miguel, Salvador Nov., 21, 1925 - Dec., 23, 1925 Urocyon Gato del Monte This for like many of the other larger mammals met by me only at night. One night while hunting along a caneta trail through the coffee I flashed two greenish eyes which disappeared suddenly into the coffee. This was near a turn in the trail. Several nights later while coming back toward camp along this same trail and quickly turning the curve where I flashed the eyes before, I flashed two more which obviously belonged to the same species flashed before. This animal turned to go into the coffee as the other had done but just as it reached the edge of the trail I fired and rushed forward to find beautiful female fox, which became No. 10843 in my serial. No. 10902 was shot one night when it stepped suddenly out of a gully, bordered on one side by coffee and on the other by a weed patch, into the caneta trail. The stomach content of one of these animals (No. 10843) was insects.