Catalogue and species accounts, v1302
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DA Gurd 1986 Journal # Vicinity Tapanti reserve, cont. 11 May Also collected 18 Norops limifons sleeping on various tall grasses, branches + trunks in the open areas along the road - very common. Back to cabina ca 930 AM. Weather clean + sunny in AM, becoming overcast in afternoon + raining by late afternoon + evening (only light rain) A lot of lightning in the hills at night but no thunder. 12 May After breakfast + cataloging specimens we headed on to the guard station to preserve specimens. This took until about 1130 AM, after which we headed up the trail which we thought would lead up the Quebrada Segundo, just across from the station. This trail quickly petered out, however - it seems, on perusal of the maps, that the trail we went up (N of the Quebrada) was the wrong one - the one we wanted was S of the Quebrada. Since I wanted to put together a detailed map, including our knowledge to date about trails, etc., we returned to the cabina about 1230 PM, and spent the rest of the afternoon there. At about 500 PM, we walked to the Orupendola trail and waited for dark, which came about 615. We then looked for frogs along the Anbolo Cardoso trail (which we had been calling the Orupendola trail - actually across the road from it). Looked here + on the Orupendola trail until ca 900 PM but found very little (just a couple of E. diaistoma and a couple of E. cruentus in the forest and some N. limifons in the grass at the trailhead. The