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Mays
phil
1974
Journal
37
Conway Bay, Isla Santa Cruz, Galapagos, Ecuador
7-8 Fri. Looking for bats. The captain's daughter had found a [illegible] (breats?) hanging from the branches of a mangrove in the lagoon on a previous trip. He also found one hanging from a 1" diameter branch on one of the darker, smaller leaved, dense mangroves, L. cevenes. Hanging more or less in the open, easy to grab. Did not awaken despite much shaking as I climbed the tree.
Pregnant female, 2 embryos (CL = 15mm), entered in Patton's Catalogue (#4032). Saw no others.
The tide was very high. We turned a few rocks right at the water edge, saw 2 geckos. They may have been forced out of their normal haunts by the high water.
Back on the sand I early we set out the 76 tomahawks. Caught only 4 rob, despite the excellence of the bait [illegible] crobs. No useful trends regarding other trap localities. Tropidurus collected as usual. They are also small & shuttish w/ a large proportion of minimatures. Geckos were hard to find until Mary & Janet started working over dead trees peeling bark. A night thought that those we got from rocks tended to be in the red area, from the moon at the base. Mine didn't