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8/17/25
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by A.J. van Rossem while collecting birds. The animal was found running along growling. He was shot with a 410 ga. shotgun. His stomach contained fruit (jocote) and some mammal hair (very little).
August 18, 1925 - cool today. I caught another small female opossum (Didelphis mesamericana -) in a canyon in a hole under a rock at 1100 ft. altitude. The place smelled strongly of skunk. Near this place I saw a fine buck (Odocoiles) he had been down to the canyon possibly to get a drink. I shot at him with buck shot but he was too far away for my 16 ga. shotgun. He tore off through the woods at a rapid pace. Later in the evening a native brought a large Agouti (Dasyprocta). It was shot on a ridge near camp. At 350 ft. There were two, this larger male and a smaller one. The smaller one escaped before he could reload. The place was quite brushy. The stomach contained fruit (nanzet collot).
August 19, 1925 - normal day. Foggy in Mt. in morning. Rained in evening. I did no field work today, but worked on salted hides. The stomach of a (Urubatinga urubatinga) hawk contained the remains of a (Nictomus) vesper rat? The hawk was collected in dense jungle by Dr. L. Miller.