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B.Shaffner
1976 -
Journal
Mexico: Oaxaca, vicinity Vista Hermosa.
8 Feb.
This roadcut varies from 10 ft -- ~3 ft. high, is intermittent rock, rock + moss, & red clay.
We got 9 Pseudoeurycea "lumpy" & 1 Ps.
wariiezi , all out & around. Occasionally just the head was sticking out of a crack in the clay, but usually the entire animal was out & it was apparently out foraging for food, mates, etc.
It would be of interest to watch them, but it was raining, so we grabbed them & took off.
Also, the cracked red clay is definitely the place to get them - although they were found on all of the vertical surfaces. I also got a eleuthyla sitting on the vertical wall - no other frogs were seen. We took off & camped out on the Machin side of the mtn. at a bus stop - it was cold but very beautiful.
9 Feb.
Vicinity Llano de las Flores, Oaxaca, Mexico.
We got up & went to Oaxaca for business, then worked our way back up Cerro Pelon.
The 1st stop - was at an abandoned house 18 km. W. of the town of Guelatao. This area was pretty dry, but we decided to look anyway. I got a Stilopogus by the road, then walked a big, rotten log in the sun in front of the house. Under bark I got a couple of Thorius, & many more inside it - about