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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