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Diane, H.
1982
16 March
(continued) on the West River Rd. It apparently was startled by me,
as it was crawling fast when I spotted it. Didn't bite. It is gravid w/ two eggs. Turned 6-8 piles of lunks and trash in the cacao grove, but no herps.
saw 1 Sphenomorphus active ~1500m on leaf litter at trail edge. From [2030] - 2130h walked slowly down
West River Road to 150m - saw no snakes or lizards,
3 Eleutherodactylus sp.
17 March Walked East River Road and Loop Trail til noon. Saw
& photographed ā Anolis capito (SV 68mm) swallowing
an orthop head first (grasshopper had greenish legs
w/ black spots - maybe Eumastor). The anole was
limp up on the trunk of a small tree, head up at 0815h.
saw a few anurans and anoles and one
Basiliscus sp. at 1445 h put an āgā Bufo
hematitius in w/ the Xenodon. Snake seems to be too
upset - strike at my movements and defensively (?)
at Bufo as it hops by. Put snake back in for
core and will leave food over night.
18 March Bufo had been eaten by Xenodon when checked at 0700.
From 0730-1030 walked around Arboretum, then out Sma Trail
to West [South] Boundary Trail, then to New Research Trail and
to station. At 0855 I found a small Mastigodryas
melanolomus crawling on palm litter beneath a palm at
the back of Arboretum. Very snappy. Disgorged 2
Norus humilis^ that had been swallowed head first.
(intact and had SV 35mm)