1892 
Vie.of 
Colima 
(Colima) 
Mar. 17 
to 
Mar. 23 
March 20* I visited another cave which I heard of, about a 
mile from the one where I went the other day. In it I found about 
20 bate of a larger species than those taken before. All but 1 of 
the lot taken were females, and contained a single embryo nearly 
ready for birth* 
In the afternoon, some boys brought me still another species of 
bat that lives in the plantain or banana orchards. It is an odd 
species, with two white face-stripes, 
A Peccary, deer, and several Lepus insolitus were brought in by 
the hunters,- also 6 large Sejons. 
March 21, Made another trip to the bat eavq,with small returns. 
Various animals were brought in by the people today, among which the 
only one of note was a pipy opossum. It i® the size of a large 
house mouse, but is the young of a species about the size of a large 
squirrel according to the people here, and is called the ocaa-o-dre-ja. 
It is a beautiful little animal with very large eyes and a dark area 
about each eye,- the rest of body being pale brown. 
I have had a standing offer of cash for various kinds of animals 
ever since I have been here and it has resulted in many things being 
brought in which I should have missed otherwise. 
March 22 - 23. two additional species of bats have came in on 
the 23rd, raising the number of species to 13 to date. A fine male 
bat with a sooty black back down which passes 2 dark bufiy stripes 
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