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Reptiles
1927
Los Esesmiles, Dept., Chalatenango, Salvador
Summary Notes:
The small light green
frog was picked off of a barbed
wires fence on the banks of the
Rio Sempul while I was hunting
at night. It never attempted to
escape but only doubled up as
if to hide its face when I
reached out to take it. The
altitude was about 6800 feet.
The larger and speckled
frog was picked up one night
on a large flat rock near the
water's edge of the Rio Sempul
near S. Fernando, where the
river dashed between two high
rock walled cliffs. Altitude 6000 ft.
The viper was killed
near camp. One morning the
house boy was out setting
some traps for mice and came
in with his finger bleeding.
He said that when he reached
back in one of the old gopher
tunnels some animal bit
him. He grabbed a hatchet
a shot pistol and went
back with blood in his eyes.
Soon he returned with the