Field notes, v4195
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Journal Islas Boca Brava, Saino, and Palenke, Chiqui?, Panama 19 March 2002, continued March cont. sections of it by machete. The majority of the island is sparse medium-sized trees (large enough to withstand regular fire) and grassland. Unless there is another gully-like area on the other side of the island, I would say that the DM was in the only [illegible] habitat suited to LIMAs. Other birds seen on that small area of the island included: Variable seedeater ? + ? Elania sp. Red-legged honeycreeper ? + ? woodpecker (same as an IBB) Panama flycatcher...? Dk through eye, tail notched. 20 March 2002 We did a regular 3-watch day today, with me going to GUL 2, where the most recent snake was seen. Frank looked up the "siluador" snake in his snake book and says it looks like the snake-eating Colubrid Clelia clelia. They are red with a yellow ring around the neck when young, which would account for the fact that no one can remember seeing a small