Duval, E. H. 2003 Journal Isla San Jose Isla Boca Brava, Chiriqui Prov., Panama 7 May, cont. removed alphas had been released. Julie and I hiked up from the southern Sandy beach till we heard Lance-Tailed Manakin vocalizations to the West. We followed them and found two unbanded definitive-plumage males who responded readily to my mimicked down- whistle and who came quite close. The habitat on San Jose is at a much more developed successional stage than that on Boca Brava. The canopy is high and dense - it's +/- 15m in most areas of Boca Brava, but was more like 20-25m on San Jose. The understory was very open and easy to walk through with no gresses and few if any shrubs. Small trees of about 3m in height were abundant and there were plenty of potential nest sites, though these small trees were generally 'cleaner' and straighter than Boca Brava saplings. I saw no Euphorbiaceae sp. saplings or trees, but I didn't look too hard. We returned along the coast and noted the volcanic appearance of the rocks - they are very fluid in morphology, and streaked with veins of a bright green stone that is something like serpentinum or jade. See following page for a map of San Jose.