Field notes, v585
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Los Escosmiles, 1300±, Dep't Chaletemango, El Salvador March 13, 1942 forest canyon. At the time it was caught it was a solid cream color above, with yellowish legs, and yel- lowish underneath. The iris was evidently widely ex- panded, & also cream-colored, so that Sturton said that at first he could not see its eyes. He heard a second tree-frog calling, traced the voice to its source, and then inspected the area from which the noise was co- ming, but could find no trace of the tree-frog. A native brought in a large greenish-gray racer with a mid-dorsal stripe of black, of the same species as one that I caught on Mt. Tacaguateque (1018). March 14, 1942. Walked along the stream from which Sturton had taken the Hyla. This stream flows north, and is at the bottom of a very steep canyon, the walls of which are covered with heavy, dense cloud-forest vegetation. It is bordered with heavy brush and fern growth, which is very moist. There were numerous fallen logs along the stream, evidently fallen trees which had rolled down from above. Many of these were rotten, and looked like excellent places for salamanders, but none were tur- ned up. Saw two frogs, both of which dove from the steep stream- banks into deep pools before I had a chance on them. They looked like large green Hyla. Sturton and I heard a third individual calling from the stream bank above a small waterfall. We approached the frog from opposite sides; I above & Sturton be- low, tearing down all the vegetation and overturning all