Field notes, v580
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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.