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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.