El Salvador field notes, v4501
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9/3/25 27 September 3, 1925 - Warm day; rained in the evening. A trap set near a small round hole which led back under a huge boulder cached a spiny-pocket mouse. Near was an jocote tree and the seeds were lying on the ground. It is probable that the spiny-pocket mice feed on these seeds, for the stone is covered with a soft hull. In the swampy forest region near the San Miguel River I shot two two-lined bats and an Olomega leaf- nosed bat. They were discovered on a big white mangrove tree. Near the base of the tree there was a decayed portion which extended up for nearly fifteen feet. As I came up the two two-lined bats flew out and lodged on the other side of the tree. I saw the Olomega leaf-nosed bat flutter in [illegible] a dark corner of the decayed crevice; by looking closely I discovered him and shot him with the shot pistol. Then I collected the other specimens. This vicinity was a very open forest jungle with many large trees. A lagoons within twenty-five of the tree where I collected the bats. September 4, 1925 - [illegible] cool day; threatening rain in evening. I caught a spiny-pocket mouse by a hole in a small stump directly under the jocote tree that I spoke of yesterday. By a large rock I caught a mouse that looked some what like an Oryzomys. The stomach content of both mice proved