El Salvador field notes, v4501
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8/17/25 August 17, 1925 - Threatening rain in the morning, clear at noon, and raining in the evening. Today I collected another large male Nasua narica. He was in a tree inspecting two large nest when I first discovered him. I was surprised that the agility with which he climbed about the tree. There was a great difference in color between the Nasuas that I have collected and especially between the two males. One is nearly black while the other is decidedly brown. I collected this specimen about 9:30 A.M. at 1100 feet altitude. The stomach content was mostly fruit (nanze). All the Nasuas that I have collected have had Nematodes in their stomach. My mouse traps in the grass along the edge of the corn patch had another wooly mouse. The ants had eaten it so badly that I made a skeleton of it. Its stomach contained ground corn. One of my large traps which was baited with colmordant had a small male opossum (Didelphis mesamericana -). The bait had been hanging by a string from a tree. The opossum apparently trifled to crawl down the string for the string was broken and the bait was lying near one of the traps. The most interesting thing that happened to-day was the shooting of a Tayra (Tayra barbara -)