Field notes, v585
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F slope Los Escamites, 7300', Dept Chalatenango, El Salvador March 8, 1942. Stayed around Camp, and have an infected foot. Several specimens were brought in by members of the party. The cleoborus here is green, and closely resembles that found on Mt. Tacaguatique, but I believe that it is diffe- rent. The Ferborus is evidently not salvadorensis, as the frontal + median frontonasal are in contact, and the color + size are somewhat different from Schmidt's description. An Anolis was brought in which has a broad yellow stripe running from a point just behind the head, the whole length of the body and over the basal 1/2 of the tail. The throat fan is yellow. March 9, 1942. All today, I stayed in bed all day. Natives brought in two snakes. One resembles a garter snake, to which it is certainly closely allied. The other snake is a Bothrops godmani. It agrees closely with Schmidt's description of a specimen taken here by Stirton in 1927. The "garter" snake is called "Sanagas", the pit viper came "Timbo". They came from down below a short distance. March 10, 1942. Stayed in bed all today. Another Bothrops and a snake tentatively identified as Micrurus were brought in by a native. The second snake resembles a coral snake in shape, size, scalation, but it is a light red dorsally, with mid-dorsal black shading, no traces of annuli. I know of no species of