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Therne, H.
1984
13 June (continued)
brought it in to avoid its escape.
14 June
Walked Camino Experimental loop and out to SOC ~960, checked the two sites for the little green Bothrops schlegeli but didn't see it. Saw only a few Norops along the way. A gray overcast morning w/ intermittent light showers. Michael got two Bothrops nasutus and a Rhadinaea decorata on the Loop Trail.
15 June
Dave and I got up at 0430 and walked on the Camino Experimental until ~0515hr in hopes of seeing an active bushmaster, but found nothing. After breakfast, we walked from 0800 to ~1120: out SOC, SHO, across the big swamp to the Camino Central to ~1650m. Returned by way of the Camino Circula Jejaro. At 0823hr, ~135m on SOC, we caught a pretty, reddish Xenodon noldozophalus as it crawled rapidly off the trail in leaf litter. It thrashed and shot when seized, and tried to bite when held by the neck. At 0845hr, SHO ~390m, we missed an unidentified Crown and/or gray snake, ~18" total length, in leaves beside the trail - the possibility that it was a Bothrops asper made us hesitate a little too long, and also just at that moment Dave got stung by two bolas at once.