9/6/25 30 white seed pulp. September 6, 1925 - Warm day, especially close in the afternoon. Threatening rain in the evening; may rain tonight. In the heavy stemmed blue bladed grass I caught a cotton rat (Sigmodon hispidus -) in one of the large snap traps. The trap was set under some grass that was held up by a few stender shrubs. She carried five 23 mm. embryos. Her stomach contained green plant fibers. (10424) I took a large Oryzomys from a trap set in a run on the musky soil in the grass among the cattails. In another trap set up in the grass about two feet from the water I (10425) caught a smaller Oryzomys. The trap crushed its skull but I saved all I could as well as the skeleton. On the other side of the lake - in a hole under a stone wall about three hundred yards from the San Miguel (10427) river I caught an opossum (Metachirus). The wall leads up a small slope to a stock shed. Around the wall was much grass and weeds, and it was about one hundred feet to the edge of the jungles. Several nights I found a No. 1 jump trap, which I had set in the hole, sprung. Yesterday I set three No. 1's in a V shape and caught the opossum. The specimen was very pugnacious; she carried six young in her pouch which measured 85 mm. in length. In the evening I (10428) shot another black mastiff bat along the