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Seib, R.
1982
15 Aug Tapachula to Motozintla Rd., Chiapas, Mexico, and return road below we saw a DOA Marmosa.
It was larger than the mouse possums I caught on Volcan Tacana 4 years ago.
It looked like four-eyed possum. Drove home and fell asleep exhausted.
Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico
16 Aug Woke, had breakfast and a 10 min. swim.
Drove straight out to San Jeronimo to put in a full day. I wanted to get a lot of people looking for snakes by searching with them myself. Unfortunately, I could only find six little boys. We hiked up a hill across from the place and travelled a fair distance. Worked for 8 1/2 hours and only caught 2 snakes, N. dixdamae & N. sebex.
I caught another tiny frog which looks like an Eleutherodactylus with red spots on a black backdrop. But the arms and legs are very long for this that genus. It was very poor collecting under the coffee because grass and plants were growing nearly everywhere. When we did find thick leaf litter, it was usually under low coffee so that we could not stand up.
I decided to raise the price I was paying for snakes to 20 pesos each. This made Martin happy who had caught the N. Ninia. I hope