Journal and species accounts, v1347
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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