Field notes, v1306
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Greene, H. 1989 July 14 Some rain during the night and on the way to breakfast - a cool, dreary morning. Found the Leptophis aequalula from the swamp dead, so picked it. Also the Sceloporhis from Pava's, which had an infected eye and a couple of water blisters. It had defecated again and segments and one leg w/ "claw" (as centipede) were clearly visible under a scope. Forgot to mention earlier 1) a few nights ago Dare and I saw an armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) on the CCC (same general area where Feynman Godinas lives and I saw the injured one on a previous trip); 2) last night Ardell saw a large Didelphis marsupialis cross ahead of us on the CES; and 3) a few nights ago on the CES I spotted an adult Greater Tinamou roosting on a horizontal branch ~ 8-10 m above the ground and ~ 1 m out from the tree trunk. Weights and measurements of two live Eleutherodactylus: 1) E. fitzingeri, SV 47 mm, 8 g; 2) E. transfordi, SV 21 mm, 1.2 g. From ~1430-1700 h Ardell and I walked through the Arboretum and out the Sendero Sura to LOC, then to Sendero Atajo out to the Rio Sarapiqui, and back to the station via CES. Hot and humid. At 1450 h we found an adult ? Bothrops nasutus at Sendero Sura 905 m - she appeared extremely thin and evidently recently parturient, so we only nudged her off the trail rather than add stress by handling her. Picked up cat scat at Sura 690 m and Atajo 550 m, then 1 old and 2