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Greene, H.
1987
17 December The snake thrashed, spun, struck, bit, gaped
(continued) w/ wide open mouth, and emitted a foul odor when
seized. When later released in a sapling it slid
deliberately up and out of sight. Palped from it
the remains of a hybrid, cf. Smiliacea, w/ next
to heel of 40mm. It had faint crossbars on the
thighs, which had their posterior surfaces
unicolor and separated from the dorsum of the thigh
by a sharp border that becomes a white line across
and over the anus. Frog had been swallowed
head-first. Examined faces of Azylobus
pelota collected 13 December, and found only many
small reptile scales that I took to be Ameiva festiva.
At 1600h David Clark caught a Rhodiniaea decorata
? on the sidewalk by my cabina (253+50+?mm,
7g). When handled it squirmed, opposing repeatedly
the red ventral colors, and emitted a very foul
odor. I palped 3 pieces of tail of a Sphenomorphus
chesnei, which fit each other perfectly. At
1950h in a light rain I found a neonate
Leptolius nebulosus ~1m above ground on a broad
leaf, next to the sidewalk near my cabina.
It squirmed and smelled slightly, but no biting
or gaping; when I palped 2 tiny transfixing,
unidentifiable frog heads (cf. hybrids?), swallowed
tail-first (snake 4.6g, 27H+16lmm, distinct
umbilical scar). At 2026h, near the turnoff