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Mayer
Phil
1972
Journal
Chaco Experimental Station, 295 km NW Villa Hayes
on trans Chaco Hwy. Depto. Ple Hayes, Paraguay
22Tue
to the surface, resulting in large areas being
under a couple of inches of water during the
wet season, but drying to a powdery dust
during the dry season. This is the start of
the dry season so there is fair an't any
standing water - more or less permanent
puddles anywhere, w/ small pond frequent.
The 600 cleared ha are mostly native
growth left tall, w/ a few slums & forbs
mixed in. The rest of the station is either
palm swamp or low woods.
We put 18 traps only out (due to the late
hour) along the border of a cleared fruit
falling field & woods. Many piles of
dead branches. Macelli found a very
old green frog (Toad?) one km brush in
+ cleared field - away from water, (as far
away as we can get, maybe a few hundred feet).
Whitish pastel green some yellow eye rim +
lower edge of jaw, tubercles on belly w/et,
lunguous green, & white. Eye is cream color
large parotoid glands, but skin damp &
smooth. Sticky white secretion # 158 in
formalin.
8PM checked traps, caught a
Guinea pig along the edge of the field
23Tue
tapping results from last night - a couple