Field notes, v1305
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Kerrie, H. 1982 11 March (continued) clearing. When we got there it had left, but at ~0915 I found it motionless in glass under a bush. Seized it before it started moving, and it immediately began striking and thrashing. After lunch we"measured"it at > 2.1 m in total length. Has a few ticks. Then walked West River Road, Research Trail, and a section of an old Tower Trail. Saw numerous Eleutherodactylus and Anolis , and a juvenile [illegible] Rana warscewiczii . Got back at 1205. (NB: Just handled the Bolitoglossa colomnae and it did some great watch-spritz flip flops, as well as walked pretty fast.) About 1430 Joyce Tsugi (U. Washington) brought me an adult Leptophis depressirostris from the edge of the grove near the AC lab, from which I regurgitated a frog's leg. Walking back at ~545 Manuel Santana and I saw a rufous motmot land on a branch—very large bird! (The frog legs from the Leptophis are apparently Leptodactylus pentadactylus —a juvenile). After dark walked out New Research Trail to release L. pentadactylus — Lepidophyma was not at it's hole in the tree. Nothing else of note seen. (L. pentadactylus from Leptophis has femur length of 23 mm).