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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