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1983
14 January W. of the Quelzada Cartasana. The trail goes up just E (continued) of the small side stream I followed earlier. Today I walked up and down the trail over two ridges, but Eleutherodactylus, Barra waracleutscii, and Dendrobates punilio active on the forest floor; and Rhadinaea decorata and Lepidophrya flavinucleatum under small logs. The Rhadinaea squirmed into the mud when I tore open the log, flashing the orange belly, and discharged cloacal contents when handled. It is very opaque. Carlos Gonz & Leidro Chacon went farther on the trail and brought me some frogs, a tiny Andis, and an SmarTodes cerchoa apparently killed yesterday by the trail cutters. I went to a pool just upstream from the Quelzada to bathe, searched under some cobbles among moss, ferns, and liverwort, and caught a Lepidoblepharis xanthostigma leguilles. The ranger saw large jaguar tracks today, in the forest W. of camp. After dinner, I walked up the trail E., saw nothing on trail but found Eleutherodactylus hopping in grass as I got near camp on return. Only occasional frogs calling.
15 January It stopped raining at 2 km during the night slide skies, and again about 8AM, but started up again. These Temporales last 2-5 days according to Hartshorn.