Field notes, v1306
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Green, H. April 5 bz. at 09/6hr, 200 cc, a juvenile male (continued) Rhadine decorata crawling in litter on the trail. Had a complete tail, whirled and spewed a foul mush when handled. In the swamp I stepped off the boardwalk to reach for a frog or lizard and sunk to my knees! After crawling out, I found a small eel (~15 cm TL) that I took to be Synbranchus in the mud on my feet, and it regurgitated a worm of some sort. Saw 40+ Cebu in the swamp, and heard alouette on the Holdridge Trail. We passed John Asvin (Austin, Texas) w/ his group of birders in the succession plots, and shortly thereafter he found in the trail remains of a Sibon nebulata (tail and posterior) adult that had been largely eaten by savellies, at 10:35 hr., 50R 450 m, we found a Cryptophis cristatus (103+243 mm, 34 g, “pezto 2 onpopo” fide Alejandro) in litter on the trail. At our approach it hopped once or twice, a meters so to the side and rapidly ascended a sapling (~φ~40 mm) to ~1 m and froze. When seized it struggled and was periodically limp, then struggled again, but did not gape when poked. There have been two adult male Iguana iguana in trees near the bridge, on the north side of the Puerto Viejo – dull colored, but healthy looking. One was basking in a tree crotch fairly