Field notes, v1306
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H. H. 1987 June 16 (continued) light coil at the end of a rotten fallen limb ~10 cm in diameter, facing the [illegible] length of the limb - ~1m, ending at a large fallen log. Snake jerked to alertness when touched w/ a snake stick, suggesting to me that it was asleep. Viper was in a good position to strike an oncoming rodent, which perhaps it would only do at night. While walking out to see that snake, at 1302 hr, I spied a Leptophis nebulosus (735+465, 54g) ging into a crack/hole/litter at the base of a buttressed tree beside the trail at ~1:00 CES. Snake propped the cloaca & thrusted when grasped, snifting a foul and distinctive smell (vaguely like agkistrodon), as soon as in the open it gaped widely, orienting to my moving hand, and stunned and bit at close objects. At 1400 hr, I was sent to the bathroom below cabin #3 where there was a Leptodeira septentrionalis on a baseboard, in the dark behind the door (480+126, ?, 16.0g, no food). This morning was sunny, hot, humid, but by 1500 hr it is dark and there is loud, long thunder. Rained until after dinner. Went w/ Joanne Sharpe to see the young Lachesis, which at 2010 hr was in the raised alert posture, facing E, and on the "original" pallet at the tree base. Thus, sometime since this morning she had