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D.A. Good
1987
Journal
Ubeen Cacao to San José, Costa Rica
1-5 Sept.
ca. 8.30 AM + walked down to Finca Itzard where we
were picked up by one of the employees at Santa Rosa Nat'l.
Park. We were then taken to the park where we left
most of our equipment + then to Liberia where we caught
a bus to San José at 2:00 - it arrived about 6:00.
Collected a single herp (Elympe juvenile) on the way down
the mountain. On 3 Sept. we rented a car + drove back
to Santa Rosa + picked up our equipment. That evening
after dusk we collected around the flooded field we had
been to on 5 August - found more Hylla microcephala +
Rana pipiens + Physalaemus pustulosus like last time except
that the Physalaemus were much more common -> mostly
in water-filled cow footprints - lots of foam nests. Looking
this time were Odolygon stufferi - except for some very
rare meteora-phase juveniles. Also collected Odolygon boulengeri
+ Leptodactylus malacorhynchos which we hadn't gotten before.
See DCC note for more frog details. On 4 Sept. we drove
down to San José + took a car of some items of business there
(liquid nitrogen, OTS, etc). Stayed in San José on
5 Sept. as well.
San José to Moravia de Chirripo, Costa Rica
6 September Left San José ca. 8:30 this morning in rented Russian
Niva 4-wheel drive vehicle to head for Moravia de Chirripo
to the EF Tunnels in order to look for a new species of
Nototriton (known from only 1 specimen). Dave Wake had
told us to drive to the ranch headquarters at Moravia + then