Field notes, v1524
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AKP 1973 The little yellow-footed black toad (W1") seem to be found most frequently wandering across the countryside - mid morning, especially. At 9:50 AM this morning (sunny, breeze) one hauled & at traveled 1/2 yds in the next 8 minutes, more or less in a straight line. It went into a humors at the side of a Pygenophyll mat. At 10 AM a tour of the coral area showed ? on Pygenophyllum; Tagged Toad ?; Spider Rock ? and other ? are out. No toads seen on coral area. Friday, March 23 - Challapalca Spent a good part of this morning trying to locate a toad missing with one of OP's telemeters aboard. Also OP & I watched our telemetered lizard wake up. Then I collected lizards off the area, & They put a telemeter in a toad over by the river. It was really nice and sunny until 2 o'clock. We are getting low on kerosene and some other supplies, & we talking of leaving here tomorrow. Saturday, March 24 - Yarata Camp Broke camp this morning, and efforts (again?) to locate our two missing telemetered toads and to get our things dried out a bit. We drove up to Capazo to see what we could squeeze out of the store to replenish our supplies, then back to the guard station at Challapalca. They (the Guardia Civil) were much amused to hear we had