Field notes, v1305
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H. 1984 26 June (continued) through a little gap in them at ground level. It was impossible to see from anywhere else! Picked up a large piece of shed iguana skin on the ground nearby. Temp of snake 25/30 at 1400h. At 1415h we found the big F B. asper in her same spot, head pointed under leaf and tail no longer visible; 27/30. It is still sunny and partly cloudy, hot. Manuel called Alejandro Solazano at the Instituto Leoncio Picado. They had a Lachesis cat of Coendou spines in it, and a scat from a 2.08m B. asper w/ spines of Hoplonog. At ~1630h Manuel checked Ch2 and found it still there, head not showing; 25/30. 27 June at 0736h I found the big B. asper Ch5 in the same place; could see head under leaf, but tail and post. of body were outside on the ground in a hairpin form, not part of the main coil; 24/30. Just before noon Ann Broke found a Polychrus guttatus F dead on the SOR, which I preserved. It seemed very slender but otherwise intact, so cause of death is a mystery. Someone brought in two skinks that turned out to be Celebes sp. and Diplglossus bilobatus; the latter apparently a gravid F. At 2015h I found Ch5 in coil under the leaf; couldn't see head; 25/30. 28 June Manuel and I went up the Rio Puerto Viejo from