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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