E. Heske 1980 Journal Playa Escondida, Sierra Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico in the dry creek area N of our rooms in a final effort to catch the elusive beast which keeps springing my traps. While doing so, I saw a Long-tailed hermit searching for flowers (?), moving from brushy area to brushy area. As it was getting too dark to see anymore by this time (~1900), I went to dinner. After dinner we all sat around working on field notes until ~2130, when David and I went to check the mist nets. There was 1 Artibeus jamaicensis in the upper net W of the rooms, the lower one was empty. N of the rooms, the net in the banana trees yielded 4 bats, the upper trail net yielded 1, the net over the cistern was empty, and the lower trail net yielded 3 bats. 5 of the bats were A. jamaicensis, only 2 were kept; but all 4 unidentified bats were kept overnight to 1D in the morning. We finished furling the nets ~2400. Those bats were a pain to get out of the nets! Playa Escondida + vicinity, Sierra Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mex. 8 March Friday.