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Monte Cristo Mine, Too; Depto S. Morazan, El Salvador.
Dec. 19, 1941.
From the weeds by the side of a dry road running
through the Barrios settlement.
Dec. 20/41
Hunted Thompson's garden for worm-snakes.
Leitz told me that he had often seen them in
damp & muddy places there. Thompson told his
native gardener what I was looking for, and
to help me in my search. The gardener seized
a shovel and headed for the nearest muddy
spot, under a dripping water faucet; shovel-
ed up some earth--uncovered a fine mess
of earthworms. I straightened him out as to
what I was after, but we found no snakes
though we hunted high & low. Found one Pana
(941) under some slatting beneath a faucet.
Returned to camp & collected some Avalie &
Brownheaded lizards in the afternoon. Also
prepared the lotoise Leitz sent me Dec. 18.
Dec. 21, 1941.
Prepared an opossum which some native boy
had brought from Divisadero the day before.
Stinton, Gealey, & Leitz went to look over a fossil
locality at Gigante, 2 mi. SE of Monte Cristo.
Stinton saw a large gray Colubrid (960) of the same
species as 912; on the brushy bank of a small
stream. When he went after it the snake took