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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)