El Salvador field notes, v4501
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7/30/25 while hunting last night: (Sylvilagus) July 30, 1925 - clear - warm - 6 P.M. threatening rain. The traps that I set yesterday with the help of a native were gone this morning. A trap set by a small hole which went down under a lava rock boulder contained a spiny-pockey mouse (Hesperomys). This was in a shady part of the jungle not far from the lake. A trap baited with a Mexican Cormorant caught an opossum (Didelphis mesamericana - ). She had 13 young in her pouch which were about one fifth grown. Dr. Miller shot a spider-monkey (Ateles) and a small black bat. (Sarcoteryx) [Penetrated of 'Caiman' at this time? A. J. Van R., in ch., R.A. July 31, 1925 - Warmer - Warm - Threatened rain in the afternoon. To-day I brought in all my traps from the mountain sides and formed my trap line along the lake. The trap that I caught the opossum in held a Black Vulture. The cormorant (bait) was well concealed in the brush but the vultures found their way to it. On my way along the trap line in the morning I passed one mouse trap by mistake. As I came back along the line about 11 A.M. I found a (spiny-pockey Mouse) (Heteromys) in the trap. The ants had all the hair nipped off. If I had looked at it in the morning it probably would have been ok. The hole where I could this specimen looked very