Field notes, v1306
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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