El Salvador field notes, v4501
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9/6/25 31 lakes edge near camp. Its stomach contained insect pulp. A native (0429) brought me a lion-cat. He shot it on a ridge (Alt. 350ft.) in the jungle east of camp. The native said there were two but the other escaped. This mammal had a prehensile tail, September 7, 1925- Very warm day; rained during the night. A trap set by a little round hole under a small rock had a female spiny-pocket (0430) mouse. I caught two other species of spiny-pocket mice from the same hole about two weeks ago. 'Van' (0431) shot a gray-tailed squirrel in the jungle near a corn patch. Her stomach contained jocote fruit and nuts. These mastiff bats are the swiftest bats I ever saw. I missed two shots again tonight. September 8, 1925- very warm day; rained all night. I caught a (0432) Sigmodon in the blue stemmed grass. The specimen had apparently been caught early in the evening before for it had started to deteriorate. The stomach content could not be determined. Along the rocky lake shore in the edge of the (0433) jungles I caught a Peromyscus. The trap was baited with tankage. September 9, 1925- Under the rocks on the lake shore in the edge of the jungles I caught two spiny-pocket mice. These traps were baited with (0434) shelled corn which was laid on the trap near the beddle. The mice were cought in the same type of places.