Field notes, v1443
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LIDICKER 1978 July 6 cont. Camilocagna we caught 3 Plectrurus sylvarius in the 10 sq. meters and 4 near the garden. There were around as well as 2 Squalus leaving out the 3 skimmers under the plastic sheets. We also picked up the 5 stragglers in the barn & the 5 skimmers in the cellar. We went 7 sh. and the barn (wood piles, etc.). As we were quite soaked by them, we returned to the hotel to change clothes (nic Pogliaro to buy postcards). We got back about 12:15. Then we started processing our catch, almost finishing before lunch at 13:00. Then we finished our animals, sharing only the skins that saving tissues from all 4, and went to the beach in Pogliaro. By this time it was sunny & clear. We also picked up the 5 remaining live daps in the hotel condition. Then we driving the mountain to Carco taking a few photographs. In an ancient meadow near the home of Carco where we had seen countless iguanas, we found 8 scaly skinks & 2 more along the forest edge. Then we went to Braccio to the outskirts of a spectacular waterfall. We talked to a man working in a vegetable garden, which included a patch of tobacco (this may be the highest patch of tobacco in the valley). He seemed to be familiar with Plectrurus p. (=tobacco lizard) & confirmed that they are most common in buildings in winter & move into the fields in summer. He asked him to be more specific. He said they were rare in the garden itself & pointed to the nearby wooded lands. We looked around in a field (unclear) next to the river & found numerous