El Salvador field notes, v4500
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Reptiles 1927 Los Esesmiles, Dept, Chalatenango, Salvador viper. His finger bled well and swelled back past his knuckle. The fang apparently scratched him and perhaps dug in a little just back of the nail of his index fingers. For a week he had a very sore hand. Altitude 6400 ft. The little brown lizards which look something like Eumeces were seen both in the rain forest and on the plain in the corn fields and fern beds by me. The altitude of the two taken were 7000 and 8000 ft. The Sceloprus were taken on the sunny side of dead logs and oaks in the rain forest region at an altitude of 8500 ft. They were quite abundant. They were dark green when seen on the logs their color changing to dirty gray when they were shot. I saw one of this species among the spines at an altitude of 5000 feet.