Greene, It. 1989 April 3 (swamps) is dry and everywhere open ground is (continued) deeply cracked. I'm told that except for a brief drizzle on the 2nd, there has been no rain in a month or so. April 4 I spent most of yesterday and today in bed, and possibly am getting better. Sharon Emerson (University of Utah) and I walked out the SOR and CCL to 1000 m and returned, but saw nothing. Only frogs calling at night were scattered Eleutherodactylus and several Bufo marinus that sounded as if down by the river. I saw one each Hyla laevis (crossed out) and a small Smilisca (not bairdii) on the wall of the barn in the old river station, and an adult Theloderma sapicandum also. Dendrobates tumidus is everywhere to be seen and heard, despite the drought. At the Board meeting there was talk about whether increased human presence was affecting large animal sightings, and David Clark opined they are more common now, perhaps because of reduced hunting. The Clarks have had a herd of Tayassu tajacu below their house daily for a week or so, at ~1730 hr. Yesterday and today I saw an agouti and two finchous. near the station, and at 1140 hr in flight sun today an adult Jayna (Eira barbara) crossed across the new lab clearing (it had a rather light yellow chest patch but was