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Greene, H.
1990
June 20 (continued) an adult Micrurus nigrocinctus (♂,555+96mm, 51.6g)
crawling off the trail at ≈SQR 200 m. When I
pinned the snake w/ a foot, it thrashed, coiled
and waved the tail, and bit rapidly and repeatedly.
At 2040 hrs. Billie spotted a smaller adult M.
nigrocinctus in the successional plots, but I was
unable to pin it before the snake rapidly crawled
out of sight in dense vegetation. In both cases the
bright tricolored pattern was obvious and I did not
experience flicker-fusion of the bands. At 2119 hrs.
Dave found an adult Septemaria septentrionalis crawling
at ≈3 m up in the large open tree ≈1/3 into the
Cartasana Swamp from the W. end, S. of the board-
walk. Snake was crawling slowly along a limb
(≈ same diameter as snake), tongue flicking w/ head
against limb. At 2125 I found a gravid ♀
I. septentrionalis <1 m above water near the W. end
of the swamp, ascending a ≈15 an diameter tree
on which there was an arboreal Tarantula at ≈
3m. The snake was crawling in part on vine that
ascended the trunk. When handled she thrashed
and smelled very foul.
June 21 Dave and Billie found a Rhadinaea decorata ≈0600 hrs
on the path between the lab clearing and the Old
River Station (4.8g, 212+136 mm). At 0700hrs two
workmen showed me a Bothrops asper they found
in the grassy lab clearing, under an object (22 g