R.B. Hamilton Journal Pariñas, 7km N, 15 km E of Talara, Dept. Pirua, Peru August 2 go with him to the cave. He came by camp about 09:00, and Ray and I went with him to cave. We carried nets, lights, and gloves and hoped to bring back some bats. We had to drive about 20 km to the vicinity of cave. We followed a dry river all the way.. The country between our camp and area of the cave was pretty consistent with much mesquite vegetation; however, there was greater variety of vegetation found upstream near site of cave. We went back into barren hills looking for cave, but it turned out that site of cave was covered by a rock slide. There were, however, several other small caves nearby. In one we found about 15 large long-nosed nectar-eating bats. Ray took swipes at flying bats with hand net but succeeded in catching only one. The bats were flying in rather narrow end (2 ft. high) of cave. Ray seemed afraid to go in so I crawled back into narrow end hoping to pick bats off wall. However, bats would fly before I got close enough. I then tried to chase them toward entrance of cave where Ray was stationed with a hand net and where we had placed a mist net. However, bats seemed able to see mist net and deftly avoided Ray (who seemed frightened of them). Bats in cave evidently found XXXX narrow opening which I could not reach and thereby avoided capture. After this adventure we returned to camp. Ray and I reported on the impressiveness of the country near bat cave and told Carl that this location might be a good place to camp. We arrived back at camp about 14:00. I