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N slope Mt. Tacaguate, 4600', Dept. Morgan, El Salvador
Dec. 25, 1941.
Bills from an open wire-walled shed right be-
hind the ranch house (970). The ♂ has 2 large
rose-colored blotches bordered internally with
blue on the belly, which the ♀ lacks. [illegible]
After lunch Stinton and I caught 1 Ameiva
undulate in the garden in front of the ranch-
house (967+968). One was a large adult, the other
subadult. These lizards are very suggestive of
Luvindophorus in their actions and methods
of locomotion. Spent the afternoon on a ridge
below the summit of the north slope looking for
snakes, but saw nothing. In the evening took
Joe Marshall to the spring where I had heard the
owl the night before. We heard one owl which
sounded like Otus asio, another which sounded
like Otus dickopsis, and later, the same owl
I had heard the night before. None of them, how-
ever, could be called within shooting range.
Dec. 26, 1941.
Spent the morning on the peak of the north
slope in the oak forest, and down the south slope
a few hundred feet. There are supposed to be snakes of
all kinds up here. I turned over logs and rocks, kicked
apart brush piles, tore epiphytes from trees, and
looked on the ground, up in the trees, in short covered
the area thoroughly, both in the shade & the sunlight,