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9/1/25
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September 1, 1925 - very warm.
Rained in the evening. Today I
collected a male Spider monkey (Ateles).
He was alone in rather dense
jungles. His stomach contained
red berries. I saw five [illegible] Gray-
tailed squirrels (Sciurus) but they were
in [illegible] dense jungles and at too close
range to shoot. In the evening
just before it rained I went out
along the lake's edge in the boat
and shot two Mastiff bats. They were
flying very fast. Stomachs
contained insects.
September 2, 1925 - cool day.
I shot three [illegible] Salvador brown bats
in the canyon. There were only
five or six bats around the rocks.
In the evening we shot two more
Mastiff bats along the lake's edge. They
were flying high in the early evening
but came down nearer to the water
later in the evening. We heard
small bats among the trees probably
Saccopteryx. The four Mastiff bats which
referred to in my serial numbers
as red mastiff bat, black mastiff bat, and
brown mastiff bat, have the same
markings except for color. The one
female brown mastiff bat is smaller
than the males. In the earlier
part of the evening I first see
these bats flying over the trees
near the top of a ridge east of
the lake, but later they come down
within gun [illegible] range.