El Salvador field notes, v4501
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Rio San Miguel, 13°25'N., Dept, San Miguel Feb., 9, 1924 - Feb., 21, 1924 Metachirops - Juron Although not as common at our Rio San Miguel camp as at Puerto del Triunfo, the Juron was frequently encountered at night. No. 011043 was seen by me one night while hunting with my carbide lamp. While walking along one of the well used cow trails in the pasture jungle I heard a rustle in the dead leaves and the next instant flashed a pair of tiny red eyes which were moving rapidly here and there through the brush, but suddenly disappeared. And when I located them again they were in the tree over my head and with the bullseye of my light I could make out the form of a Juron creeping slowly along a horizontal climb through some vines. I backed off to a proper range and killed him with my sixteen gauge. No. 11075 was caught in a trap set under a bunch of tall green grass in the old Speedy Bean patch near Rio San Miguel. The trap was baited with Groove-billed Ani. Two days later I caught a skunk (No. 11087) in the same place. No. 11095 was caught under a wild pineapple hedge in the same place where I caught Tacuacin No. 11060. Jurons are very pugnacious.