Field notes, v1307
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Greene, H. 1990 November 8 (continued) As the sun disappears, a group of several things sets up a racket from close inside the forest. Light rain starts ~1910 hr and continues off and on through the night. At 2200hr Jens and I photographed and caught a nice big Hylasara albaleis ~70cm above ground in a tiaklaide tangle at the forestedge, perched horizontally on a twig ≤5mm in diameter - it really did look treefrog-like too. November 9 Bright and sunny at 0800hr. Last night Jan Kalina pointed out how the Ugandans converse long after they bed down and again in the morning early, a soft musical hum coming from their group that is soothsy - something I'd felt but not thought through earlier. This AM, ~1040 hr, I woke up for the second night in a row w/ a foottrache - and for that reason or that Heigroo is 2 larger and has more volume now, found the racket irritating! And all my wet clothes are mildewed. 0930-1100 hr I explored borders of the papyrus swamp, but couldn't go far in because of the pre-crotch height of my waders (and thus threat of water-borne disease) - looking for the supposedly "common once searching realized" (vide Filman in "Snakes of Uganda") Atthis mitschei, but see no herps out in the emergent vegetation. At 1040hr, 2m above the trail at swamp edge, I photographed and collected a gravid female Hypsiboas (green dorsum, white lateral markings, pink groin and legs), humped and asleep on a live leaf facing the petiole.