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D.A. Good
1987
Journal
Velein Cacao, Prov. Guanacaste, Costa Rica
26 August
cleared along the stream N of the summit of the Casa Frank trail to
look for frogs, particularly Centrolenella. On the way to the
stream, along the Casa Frank trail, we picked up 2 Bothrops lateralis —
these seem to be the commonest snake around here. At the stream
frogs were not common — heard several Eleutherodactylus diastema, which
are common everywhere, but slight more. We collected 2 E. fleischmanni,
2 Hyla ruficulris (one recently transformed, still with a substantial
tail) on low vegetation, a H. manoleva, superficially very similar
to H. ruficulris, another Hyla (possibly H. debilis or H. lue by the
Savage Key) and finally a Centrolenella. This last (C. fleischmanni)
was calling from the under surface of a leaf ca. 12 ft off the ground —
I pushed the tree over sufficiently for Cattfish to reach the frog.
Back to Casa Frank ca 9:00.
Heaviest rain we’ve had so far here, all afternoon it was
coming down in buckets.
Also seen tonight were a 4-eyed possum (not Philander) +
some small mammal (ca. 4" long) in the stream (submerged).
27 August Notes written 31 August. Usual timing today: Breakfast 6:00, spent
morning taking care of animals. In afternoon spent some time
down along the streams below Casa Mango (toward Finca Hardd) looking
again for Bolitoglossa robusta but finding none — only a Rana
Wassenaarsii + an Eleutherodactylus. We also returned to
these streams in the evening but found only Hyla ruficulris, which
we didn’t collect. CF also found an Eleutherodactylus.