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D.O. Shaney
1977
83.
3 Aug. (contd.) Food is expensive, then returned to Simla
for a snack, then ~ 5:30pm walked ~ 100 yds
down Simla "Driveway" to a trail cutting
thru an open[illegible] flat area of overgrown
cocoa plantation. Set 3 nets (see reverse)
before dark running into some wasps as we did.
Saw one small bat flying at 5:53pm. Nets up
by 6:30 - just at sunset. By 10:30pm had
caught [illegible] Phyllostomus hastatus, 16 Carolia
perspicillata, 1 Micronycteris megalotis, 3 Artibeus
jamaicensis, 2 A. literatus and 3 A. cinereus
in roughly that order. The P. hastatus came
in right after dusk & was caught in the bottom
of a net. Carolia were omnipresent; the
Micronycteris was easily identified in the land
by the band connecting the ears - under
this band the skin was unharred & I first
thought that I had ripped off the skin on
the head - in life this band seems to lie
flat:
There was a lull ~ 9-9:45 & then Artibeus
lit. & jam. hit the net together making much
racket, attracting more in. Some minutes
later A. cinereus hit, also vocalizing to best
hell. The moon is new & past '4. On returning