El Salvador field notes, v4501
Page 259
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Puerto del Triunfo Dec, 25, 1925 - Jan, 25, 1926 Vampire Bat Of these specimens Nos. 10988, 10989, 10990 & [illegible] 10991 were alive when I got back to camp although they were badly shot up. After the first two shots I fired three more into the cavity with no result. I could hear more bats in the hollow but they had apparently worked up around the curve where the shot could not reach them. On the following day I succeeded in dislodging only two, Nos. 10995 & 10996, but could hear more. All specimens thus far taken I recorded in my serial as Red Vampires. On the following morning, after I had killed the two, I discharged my 16ga. shotgun in the cavity and brought down another Red Vampire No. 11002 and a Grizzley Bat (gray phase) No. 11003. The stomachs of all specimens taken contained dark sticky semidigested blood. While hunting at night in the dense jungle I frequently saw large bats fly into the ray of my light, they were probably this species or some other equally as large.