Field catalogue #1-1072 and journal, v1669
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O. Straney 1977 86. 26 Aug. Simla Vicinity Up at noon after a bad niter sleep. Laundry lunch then to Arima to buy batteries & machetes. The people at the store did not know what the latter were & after a bit we discovered that we wanted "catlasses". Drove up the Blanchusses rd. to the crest & found a good net site, then returned down this ~~ windly, narrow, lumpy rd. to Simla & lunch.~~ At 4:30 returned to 10 mi N Arima by rd. to a logging rd branching to W off of main road at the crest of the hills. A Microwave Complex is just E of this turnoff. We had seen a Saccopteryx (?) flying here ~2:30 PM so set 4 nets by sunset here - 2 in forest & 2 where the ridge narrowed to a pass. ~7 checked the latter 2 nets & pulled out bats for a solid 1 1/2 hrs until things quieted down. The Vespertilionids taken then. The former 2 didn't do much all night. By 10 PM, The activity had died, so took down nets. Got: 1 Micronycteris meicifori, 1 Glossophaga soricina, 1 Uroderma bilobatum, 3 Vampyropes caraccioli, 8 A. canescens, 2 Chiroderma villosum, 3 A. jamaicensis 2 S. l.[i]ium (small grey), 2 S. tildae (lg bronzg), 1 Myotis nigricans, 2 Eptesicus "melanopterus", 40 Carollia (10 released - all ?) & 2 P. hastatus (released).