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D.A. Good
1987
Journal
Volcán Cacao, Prov. Guanacaste, Costa Rica
28 August Notes written 31 August.
Woke up last night with a very irritated eye + wobe (F up to
look at it (we have no mirrors here) - I appear to have
been bitten by something under the eyelid - very uncomfortable.
The only comfortable position seemed to be with both eyes closed +
there are a limited number of things one can do with
both eyes closed → I therefore slept ca. 18 hours today. Did no
collecting although CF went out briefly.
29 August Notes written 31 August. Eye still pretty bad - only comfortable to
blink while looking left. No collecting again today, although by
evening I felt recovered enough to go out (eye still watering
a lot though). We walked up the Casa Frank trail until it
intersected the water supply pipe for Casa Mango, then we walked
N along the pipe for several hundred meters. Very windy
+ not much crit. Managed to collect an Elbtherodactylus on a
lof ca. 2 ft off ground + another Bolivops laticeps, just coming
down into the ground from a small sapling.
31 August Waited until mid-morning (in hopes that early morning rain
would let up) + then made another assault on the ridge to the
top of Cacao. We went up to ca. 1350 m + looked in moss for some time
in hopes of lowering the elevational limits of Nototriton, but found
none. We then worked slowly up to 1420 m (the lowest elevation
we had previously found them at) looking under moss all the way.
Found nothing until 1420 m, when we found a large Elbtherodactylus
in moss on a tree + a Nototriton (in moss on a tree root ca 45°,
ca 3 ft off ground. Moss temp. 17.6°C, air 17.3°C) and a clutch of