Field notes, v580
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Dec 20 plantation and asked about snakes. The workers said they found them in the litter, and that they had recently seen a large boa. We arranged to come back the next morning and see what we could find. We then came back the way we came, seeing but not getting, a few more bats in the same area as before. At the Hotel we all went gecko hunting around the hotel. The geckos were on the old walls of the hotel, and ran upwards when disturbed. The light doesn't seem to bother them, but they are seldom seen moving. We also found a couple on the rocks by the hotel, which ran down crevices when frighten- ed. Gene found a couple in curl on the fronds of two coconut palms, together with Anolis and Hyla smithi. (Dec 21 About 8 we went back to the plantation. The was considerably higher than before and we made our own road. We got to the plantation about 9:30. The area is mainly dense broadleaf forest, and much of the bottom is quite wet. The forest is open enough to permit a heavy plant undergrowth of low bushes. Scattered throughout are patches of banana trees. We saw very few Iguana in here, only two or three. On the other hand Anolis abounds. There are primarily in the banana patches where there is a little more sunlight, but we saw a few in an open part of the forest proper. Most of them were on the