El Salvador field notes, v4501
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7/31/25 much like a cray-fish hole in that it was perfectly round and went straight down. The hole was about 1 1/2 in. in diameter. I made three passages to the hole by placing three rocks near the hole. In each of these runs I set a mouse trap. The hole was about 10 ft. from the water edge of the lake, under the shade of some low trees. The ground was perfectly dry and hard there. In a corn patch I noticed where something had been working on the ears that were leaning over and near the ground. The husks were chopped up rather fine and were scattered over the ground under the corn which had been robbed of its grain. I set nine mouse traps about the place and placed corn grains near [illegible] and on the traps. Dr. Miller shot a squirrel (Sciurus) along a ridge of one of the mountains. He shot it at close range because the jungle was too dense to let it get very far away. When he shot at a hawk a little later, down by the lake's edge, he heard a terrible catter behind him and turned in time to see a large number of bats flying out of a hole at the base of a large tree. There was a hole farther up and he saw several go back into it. He shot one which was a small black form with two light stripes on its back. It was apparently the same species that he shot the day before. (Saccopteryx)