Field notes, v1404
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C. Koford Journal February 23, 1951 Barro Colorado Island, Canal Zone were called "macho monte" by the people here. Coatis ("gato solo") common. Several came for bread or lawn and retrieved bananas and breads from a clothesline for their benefit. I set 20 snap traps, baiting with bread and banana, along a small stream and the Snyder-Molina trail. HUNG A BANANA IN ONE HOUSE AND LEFT DOOR OPEN AS A TRAP FOR FRUIT EATING BATS. ABOUT 9 P.M. FOUND 2 BATS IN THE HOUSE AND THE BANANA PARTLY EATEN. CAUGHT 1 BAT (WHEN MARY OPENED IT NEXT DAY TO SKIN IT NEXT MORNING, BANANA MUCH GONE FROM LURSTING - FULL STOMACH). CAUGHT 1 MALLO MOLOSSUS (OF GROUP OF 3) UNDER RAVER OF KODAK HOUSE. HEARD MUCH CHIRPING UNDER LEAVES SETCH HOUSE AND COOK HOUSE AS IF MANY UNDER CORRUGATED TIN OF ROOF. A YOUNG "MONO NAPA" KEPT IN CAGE IN DINING HALL AND A "CARIJO PINTADO" IN ANOTHER COGE. THE HOWLER SHOWED NO EYESHINE AT NIGHT, THE CARIJO A RED EYESHINE. A LARGE BROWN RARA (?) IN CRICK, SIZE OF BULL FROG, HAD BRIGHT PINK EYESHINE. COATI EYESHINE GREEN OR YELLOW. SEVERAL SNAP TRAPS SPRUNG (BY INSECT?) BUT NO CATCH BY 9 P.M. WHITE FACED MARSUPIA (2) SAW IN MORNING NEAR SNYDER MOLINA TRAIL. February 24, 1951. Saw large Amazons and Rhamploctes swainsonii near Snyder Molina trail. After breakfast Mary & I put up bats as specimens. The fruit bats did not return to screens of house. "Chechi" Vitola told us there were bats in attic of the Frank Chapman house. We looked. About 100 Myotis nigricans, mostly ??, there, in clusters of 10 to 20 just inside leaves. Several at ends of ridge pole. Took 1 Mallos Molossus and saw another with the Myotis. A group