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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