Field notes, v585
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Davis 1942. 32 Slope Mt. Lacagnatque, 4600; Dep't Morazan, El Salvador Jan. 6, 1942. By the flashlight without eyesine, as we were so close to it. When shined, stained its stomach and found 1 caterpillar 2" long, and several legs, mouth parts, & antennae of some large grasshopper. Heard numerous other Otus trichopsis and tucana virgata (Central American Tassim Owl) but collected nothing else. Joe got 2 Otus, and Stirt nothing. Jan. 7, 1942. In early a.m. after breakfast shot a Virio solitarius (1015) from foraging in a small tree in company with a hummingbird and a black-throated Green Warbler, about 40' from the house in which we are staying. Stirt and I then took a long walk up a narrow, vine covered, rocky pool stream, with a greasy silt bottom. The water is very dirty, as it runs over the coffee hulls higher up, and has the pungent odor of fermenting coffee. We attempted to catch frogs, which we found in the infrequent pools where the stream widened out. Frogs were mostly sitting on rocks by the edge of the pools, and would dive in and disappear in the thick silt on the bottom of the pool. We caught only one, which dove in to the silt at our approach. However, Stirtou and I groped around the pool bottom, and every so often one or the other of us would touch the frog,