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Davis
141.
Iguana
3 mi. W. Monte Cristóme, 650', Dept
Morazan, El Salvador,
Dec. 1, 1941.
9-10 a.m. we took to be young. Hildbrand climbed the
free and attempted to drive the large ? toward
the junk over land, but it made its way
slowly to the end of the limb out over the
water. We proceeded up the bank to ano-
ther tree where we spotted small green spe-
cimens. Seitz shot # through the head and
we recovered it after it fell to the ground.
(899). On skinning, it turned out to be an
adult ?, containing 31 spherical eggs, yellowish
orange in color, about 3/4" in diameter. We
then returned to the tree where we had spot-
ted the large ?. It had crawled to a lower
branch over land, and Seitz dropped it with
a head shot. It was 1420 mm. from snout
to tip of tail, and registered 10 lbs. on a
small fish scale (900). Color light red
scattered in blotches over a fawn ground
color. Gular flap dark red. The 2 large
pouches behind the angle of the jaws proved
to be huge extensions of the masseter muscle.
In both ? and ?, there are 2 large effusions
of one of the hyoid bones extending into the
gular pouch, which evidently enable the
lizard to move it in display.