El Salvador field notes, v4501
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9/28/25 42 but resembled a miniature monkey more. It disappeared behind the log immediately. I climbed up the incline by carefully picking my footing at last I was close enough to see more distinctly and also within range with my shot pistol. Sure enough there were the Grizzly bats dodging into the shadows trying their best to evade the light. They hopped about like so many monkeys using their forearm as a quite efficient front leg. I shot one from a really vertical rock wall where it supported itself by the forearms out in front, another was shot on a horizontal rock shelf and the other two were shot near the log chunk. September 29, 1925- clear morning rain in afternoon and evening. Worked on bats collected day before. September 30, 1925- Weather conditions the same- worked on bats which were held in captivity. Mr. van Rossem reported a doe and a fawn which he saw in the edge of the carbon forest. Our motor shot two more cottontails at the edge of a grassy pasture through which a stream ran. He said they were quite common there. (10547) (10548)