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Heere, H.
1984
13 July (continued)
at 1030h the snake is in full shade and has been almost continuously since 1000h; sky sunny, partly cloudy; 32/30. at 1100m everything is the same, although there are gusts of wind and it seems that clouds are building up from the ENG; 32/30. at ~1115 hr Cathy Hoppen (Oregon St. U.) and Anne Brooke (UCB) saw a coral snake paytoned snake in forest just behind the switcher on SOR. It was fairly short and they thought it probably Lampropeltis triangulum. at 1126hr I grabbed a Leptophis nebulosus at ~SOR50 as it crawled on grass across trail. It had SV 515 mm, tail 257 mm, head width 6.7 mm, and 17 g. I palpated a juvenile frog, cf. Hylya, from it that had been swallowed tail first, SV 17.5mm, head width 6.7 mm, 0.4 g. When I initially grabbed the snake it thrashed, gaped, bit, and defecated a foul substance. Forgot to mention that yesterday at ~1600 hr Feynman Godinos showed me a Bothrops asper (360+38mm feces saved) in a light coil in the open at ~200m on CCL. at 2100hr Manuel and I found Lachesis muta ChI at a new site, N of the CCC trail and under some fallen leaves that formed a thatch over a limb. She seemed alert; 25/30. at 2119 hr B. asper ch 4 was behind the bromeliad and facing E; 26/30. a very bright moon tonight,