More importantly: I saw a new species (for me) of snake crossing the snake field path as I went to 2nd B2a at 10:15. Black back w/ yellow speckles dorsally on anterior 1/2. He left very rapidly. Isla Boca Brava, Chiriqui Prov., Panama E-2's chichos were killed by ants. Kut and I both staked out K-15, and she got a White-over-Al, & I got an Azul (maybe). Pretty disappointing return on hours of waiting. Yesterday Mark got up first. Today he ate all of our extra food in anticipation of tomorrow's trip to David. Kut got the Steinbok glass. Some [illegible] beach-goers seem to have made off with our door (lunch site). 1 May 00 weather - overcast all day, rain for ~35 min starting at 4:30pm. I'm reading The Beak of the Finch by Jonathan Weiner today & it's making me consider some - things that I had not about manaking: If selection can be divided into life-stage forces, pushing + pulling different types of birds in different directions, then it's perfectly feasible to study evolution in this impossibly long-lived species. As far as social selection goes, males of different plumage classes,