Catalogue and species accounts, v1302
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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