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Paul DeBenedicti
1960
Dec 23 Manzanillo, Selinga, Mexico
of assorted frogs. We camped on the beach near
Manzanillio (about 5 miles north). I got up quite
Dec 24 early in the morning, and went butterfly collecting.
In the bushes near the camp I got 2 tremendous
blue hairstreaks, a small blue one, and a brown
one, and saw ? melinus. Later I went swimming
in the ocean, and got lots of animals in some tide pools,
including a beautiful blue and orange damsel fish. There were
lots of butterflies here too, but I didn't get any.
In the later afternoon we went into Manzanillo
shopping, and this took up most of the day.
This evening we - Gene, Nate Cohen, and I went
night driving north along the highway. In the river
there we got many Electrovodactylus calling. In
the background there was a noise like a truck
engine running, and there we found a big
cows of Bubo marinus. On the way back
we stopped at a swanap, and I went in to
my knees and got 3 Hyla smithi. We also got
a couple of Rang piplens and saw many goat-
suckrevs. When we got back we cooked a little dinner,
and almost got to bed. Ted, John, & Patty come back
from Manzanillo a little stewed and spent some
time setting off five evacheus. We finally got
to bed about midnight. I got up as early
Dec 25 as I could the next morning to get some
more hairstreaks. For a while I saw nothing.