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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).