Greene, H. 1984 21 June (continued) us. It was under a long platform that lay on the ground under the porch of "Rafael's House," overlooking the Rio Puerto Viejo. Isaias had lifted the wooden thing, seen the Jerecopelo and set it down gently. The snake seemed asleep tight, high coil, w/ head facing under the house. When I tried to gently hook it out, the snake crested fairly rapidly towards the darkness under the house. When I restrained it with the hook and a hand on the tail, it struck 2-3 times, out and up, such that the mouth flashed wide open and white, and seemed to be held open for a short time. Looks like ~1.5 m total length, very pretty. Was in a good place to cause a snakebite accident. Later when we put it out in leaves to photograph, this snake seemed very calm, and I was able too carefully and slowly lift it into a car on a brook. [Forgot to write on 20 June that we walked out to ~600 CES at night, with a detour into the CES swamp. I found a subadult (?) Oxyrhopus petola stretched out along the rib of a small palm leaf, ~1 m above ground at trailside, CES 200; this was 2100-2200 hrs. In the swamp we saw Agalychnis callidryas, A. saltator, Hyla glaochroa and Hyla boulengeri, and heard Gastrophryne picturata.]