Field notes, v1306
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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.