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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