Catalogue and species accounts, v1302
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D A Good 1986 Journal Vicinity Tapanti Reserve, cont. 11 May Kiisa + I said goodbye to them there and proceeded to walk down the road toward the entrance looking for moss and under rocks on the way. Apart from collecting, I wanted to check the map I made of mileages, etc., against reality - Several small streams were not noticeable from the car when I made the map while Dave Woke was still here. Also- I wanted to check out the various ICE trails along the way. Kiisa + I spent the rest of the day until mid afternoon walking back to the cabin (ca 7 km), going up ICE trail along the way (all of which go up to powerline towers above the road) and collecting. We found a large Bladinaea (?) in moss on a vertical roadbank, a Geophis under a rock (beside the road, a Trinotyphus under another rock on the roadbank and [illegible] an unidentified green and black snake up one of the ICE trails (see catalogue for localities). The unidentified snake was dead + lying in the trail. We also collected 2 Eleutherodactylus polliciferum along this trail. While walking down the road we were overtaken by one of the park guards on a motorcycle - he had collected a Dendrophidium by the Dos Amigos bridge for us. We returned to the cabin in mid afternoon + spent a couple of hours resting. Then supper and out night collecting ca 7:00 PM. We worked in the disturbed post near the driveway entrance below the cabin. Found a Centrolabia fleischmanni + heard many others. Then we worked along the road toward the reserve but found only a single frog (Eleutherodactylus daastana), although several others were heard.