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Hauken,
James
1975
Jamal
Pension Quirigua, El Valle de Anton, Coele
Province, Panama
27 August collected. Three small lizards (P93-5) had
a short ascending figure for a call. A small
toad (P96-7), possibly the same species as P85
from Bugoso, Chiriqui Province had a short,
descending low pitched call. The third species
found (P98) could not be associated with a
call was not heard calling although another
short full one note was being given around
the lawn.
I made the acquaintance yesterday of a
Sr. Mattade, a retired parasitologist who
used to work for the US Navy in the Canal
Zone and now lives in El Valle. He
collaborated on a book called the
"Ectoparasites of Panama" based upon his
several years of travel and collections all
over Panama. He is familiar with several of
the high-altitude areas in western Panama
where I've been looking for salamanders,
and despite his knowledge of animals
which I showed him yesterday were to first
he'd ever seen. This is true despite the fact
that he often turns rocks and logs when
collecting his animals, and his fondness
with lizards, snakes and turtles. He told