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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 -)