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1983
15 January (continued) This morning at breakfast the ranger talked about local mammals. Said still sees jaguar tracks frequently, also tapirs and collared peccary, but says white lipped peccaries are hunted out. From 0945 - 1/40hr I walked up the Quebrada Cartanana from camp and back. As soon as one leaves the cut over area it's nice open forest on either side. Just at the forest edge I pulled down a fair size bromeliad from ~6m up a small tree beside the stream and found a leptodecia inside w/opaque skin. Wiggled and cloacal discharge, moderately smelly. Shortly thereafter saw an anolis lionotus run on a boulder at the water's edge. Saw no other herps, raining the whole time. After lunch tore up several large bromeliads on the ground in grass by stream - nothing. Walked in grass at base of forest trail, got moderate size Eubentrodactylus and missed a bigger one w/ a bright stripe down middorsum. Found a tiny Bufo holdridgei hopping on a fallen log at the forest edge. Walked forest trail out several hundred meters, got only a jur. Rana warsdweilii and a Peripatus. Raining hard all the time and I got cold - came back ~1530 to find Stiles has shot a bar necked umbrella bird. After dark I walked E of camp for 30 minutes and saw nothing. At 1945hr Stiles found a ? Anolis liporcatus in grass at a black light and sheet he set up to attract moths.