Field notes, v585
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N slope Mt. Tacagnatique, 4600', Dep't Morazan, El Salvador Jan. 15, 1942. After lunch a native boy brought in a medium size "lumbadora," of the same species as those taken at Monte Trist. I compared it with the colubrid I had taken in the oaks up here, and the two are not the same. One of the natives who seemed a bit better informed than the average referred to this other snake (1018) as a "chi- felinera," which is evidently the native name for it. I asked the boy whether he had caught the "lumbadora" up or down the hill, and he replied "bastante abajo" (low enough) and pointed to the N slope, so arbitrarily I assigned a 4000' altitude to the specimen. Jan. 16 - Jan. 19. Mt. Tacagnatique - San Miguel. Jan. 19-21 in San Miguel. Jan. 21 - Arrived Olomega, La Union Dep't. Lake Olomega, 200', Dep't. San Miguel, El Salvador Jan. 22, 1942 Took a boat from the town of Olomega west across the lake to the Hacienda Potrero Santo, owned by Senor Ta- lacio. Took us about 2 hours by native dugout. The main house, where we are staying, is about 400 yards south of the lake. Directly south of the house is a range of rather steep, scrub and tree covered hills, the Colinas de Jucuran. While waiting for our equipment to arrive, Stinton, Hildebrand, and I took a walk west of camp. The trail led for about a mile through open grassland, with scattered clumps of scrubby