Field notes, v1731
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"[illegible]" August 17, 1950 Ken is feeling down again today. I suppose that the hot weather has much to do with our completely [illegible]-put feeling as anything. Tonight, our first [illegible]. It is found by a man who said it came into his casa. Its mark pattern is all like either T. [illegible] (Guaymas) or [illegible], but the body blotches most like the latter, which is known from Sinaloa. A couple of days ago Beeler contracted to buy lizards, 50% dead or 1 per alive. Spurred by this fabulous price, a woman and her family went to a cave and collected a sack full of [illegible], getting 35 of them back home. Beeler, of course, was stuck for $35, which made him most unhappy. On top of it all, he caught dysentery and sold only a few of them. Beeler is now known as "Don Marcelago". August 15, 1950 Last night I went out with Cajito to do some frog hunting. He took me to a stream which flows through the valley east of the ranchito house. Here I collected Agalychnis dacnicola, Rana pipiens, Liptodactylus, Bufo mazatlanensis,