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DA Good
1986
Journal
vicinity of Tapanti reserve, cont.
8 May
Of the afternoon by walking down to the "failed motel" just
S of the cabin. Found 2 ? Nopcs humilis + caught 1.
Then back to the cabin for supper. At ca. 7:00 PM, we
walked up the creek behind the cabin with head lamps + found
1 ? Geophis hoffmanni + 5 Eleutherodactylus coventus. The
Geophis was on the ground at the edge of the stream in open
pasture. The frogs were all on low vegetation (0-1.5 m off the
ground). We also heard several kinds of frogs but ?
recognized only Eleutherodactylus christae.
After walking up the stream until it disappeared below
ground, we decided to walk back down the road past the
"failed motel" to look at some mossy banks. Found only
a single frog, ID'd as Bufo melanohloris. It was sitting on
a large b of ca 1 m off the ground.
We returned to the cabin ca 9:30 PM.
Weather today bright sunshine in the morning, clouding
over by afternoon. It began to rain just as we were going out
frog-hunting at night + stopped ca 9:00 PM.
9 May
Fairly late start today - with difficulties preparing
breakfast and with field note writing, we didn't get going
until ca. 10:00-10:30 AM. The plan for today was to
walk to the Oropendola trail + see what it had to offer
in the way of herps, particularly diurnal frogs. Along
the road to the trailhead we obtained a Nopcs limifrons
running across the road and a N. oyxylephus on the
porch behind the park headquarters - another was seen but