DA Good 1986 Journal Tapanti reserve, cont. 7 May the roadbank. Aside from these animals, the only heap collected was a Ninia prephota (?) collected in the morning (ca 10:00AM) under a log in the open pasture below the Cabin. We did no collecting this evening because we have not yet had a chance to check out potential night-time routes while it was still light. Weather misting and/or raining pretty much all day--let up by late afternoon + evening. 8 May Walked up the hill behind the Cabin today, following the pipeline supplying the Cabin with water - our object was to fix the system (if possible) so that it would no longer spurt air out of the taps. We also looked for heaps on the way but found none, although we spent the whole morning (ca 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM) looking. On our return to the cabin, we found a Ptychoglossus under a rock in the pasture just above the cabin and a Bufo marinus under a board just outside the door. This hike was undertaken as a break from preparing animals so after lunch we spent an hour or so writing field notes and then walked along the road to the Gymnopis/Boletiglossa gracilis site up the Tausito road that Dave Wake had told us about. We spent some time digging through an old pile of coffee bushes but found no caecilians. We then walked down to the Tapanti-Tausito rd jct. to a spot where we had seen someone dumping what we thought were coffee bushes--turns out it was manure instead. By then it was about 4:00 PM and we decided to kill the next