Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Seib, R.
1984
Tapachula, Chiapas, Mexico
25 Oct. Woke up late again, had breakfast, swam at
the pool until it clouded over, preserved
animals. The clouds were ominous today.
Although it has rained steadily everyday
here in Tapachula and on the fincas, today's
rain was more serious with major thunder and
lightning storms and hours of rain. They had
zero snakes at Monte Pila and I'm getting
bored driving out there every day for the
big nothing. At San Jeronimo they had
2 Adelphicos, 1 Dymobius, 1 Graphis, 1 N. diaclemata,
6. N. sebai, 3 P. elapoides, 1 Tantilla tayrae,
1 Microurus [with eleven widely-spaced body
bands (not enough for nigrocinctus, but it's
definitely not a latifasciata)] sp., 1
M. nigrocinctus. When the rain was mostly
over with, around 17:45, we set up two
more nets at the site we netted just
two nights ago. One net was over the
same trail where we did so well
the other night. It only caught 2
Stenura & about 6 of Carollia & Glossophaga.
The other net I placed in front of a
trail at the far end of the clearing.
It caught 1/2 dozen Carollia before dark.
It continued to pull in Carollia &
Glossophaga until 10:30 when we got 9