Lake Omega, 200', dept. San Miguel, El Salvador Jan. 23, 1942 Spent most of this day helping to fix up camp. Gealey caught a Bufo from the water hyacinth at the lake shore (1065), and a native boy brought in a red-legged tortoise of the same species as 929 (Monte Cristo). Went night-hunting, shot a Hyetodromus (1067) on the trail as it ran through the grassland west of camp. I shined numerous goateaters, all of them run along the trail or in the grass to the side of it. Left the path and went toward the lake. Ran into a bed of water-hyacinth in which numerous frogs were croaking. Took one on dry land at the edge of the hyacinth (1066). Jan. 24, 1942. Walked over to the flat in a.m. Noticed several flocks of Anaptila ruficanda in the grass by the side of the trail, shot one (1068) from a clump of grass. Took a Ctenosaura (1069) from a patch of agave, and another (1070) from about 8' up in a tree. Caught a brown-headed lizard in the grass by the side of the trail (1071). Shot two Sceloporus from rocks. In f.m. walked down by the lake. Took two Sceloporus, 1 from a rock, another from a log. Saw a large lizard crawling about in the Mimosa scrub growing in about 4" of water at the lake edge. Shot it and it proved to be a canted, probably Basiliscus vittatus. I think it is the same species as that around Monte Cristo, but much larger, with greater development of the