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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