Field notes, v585
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Davis 1942 Lemontefoque, 2750', def St. Tabanas, El Salvador April 23, 1942 bordered internally with a heavy stripe of dark bluish-black. April 24 - April 30, #/1942 In San Salvador April 27, 1942 That part of the Hotel Nuevo Mundo is located is built around a courtyard. In the center of the court- yard is a second building containing other rooms. The walls of this second building are covered with a fairly dense, uniform growth of ivy. [square] I had no- ticed lizards or crawling about on the ivy before, and today I caught three of them. They are Gouatodes fuscus, The males have bright orange heads, the body being ver- miculated dark blue and black. The ?'s and immat- ures are finely vermiculated with black, dull gray, and brown. They may be told, however, by the white Y on the chin & gular region. When alarmed these lizards im- mediately ran to the underside of a board leaning against the ivy covered wall. Their skin is tissue thin & very tender, & the tails easily broken off. They seem to prefer bright, sun-lit locations, and I noted them resting on the outer surface of the leaning board, and in places on the wall where the ivy growth was rela- tively sparse, both places well exposed to the sun. These lizards move fast, but when they reach a place of concealment, tend to remain motionless even after being