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Freere, H.
1987
19 December elaeochroa, a few Agalychnis saltator, and a single
(continued) Smilisca baudinii calling. I found an short-tailed
inornatus (610+253mm 19g) x 3m over the east end of the
boardwalk, crawling down a very slender, deadened
link, with neck & body extended straight along link.
Palped from it a freshly ingested Hyla elaeochroa,
swallowceel tail first, 1.8g (pickled). The snake
responded to handling by squirming and emitting
a foul odor. At 2140h, in a low bushy tree near
the west end and just north of the boardwalk (same
tree from which last summer I retrieved an L.
inornatus containing three frogs), I found a large F
L inornatus (43g, 700+285mm). It was in a
loose coil, w/ head and neck possibly extending back
up into the tree, at the end of a leafy branch and
x 2m above the water. From it I palped a gravid
F A. saltator that had been swallowed head-first,
60mm heel to anus, >5g. Response to handling
was squirming, emitting a foul odor (this
accompanies ejection of a viscous liquid and
a small quantity of uric acid), and pulling
the head into an S-coil w/ quadrates spread-
very reminiscent of Dipsas sp. No strikej -
only response to additional poking was crawlj.
We found a juvenile Hyla rupitela on a broad
leaved plant x 1m above ground, near the
sidewalk into the swamps.