Field notes, v1307
Page 71
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Greene, H. 1990 June 30 site of earlier evenings, crawling slowly and tongue- (continued) flicking. We saw brilliant yellow-green eyeshine of two inguas (Bassariscus astutus) in a palm tree, which because of a misperception of how far away the tree was I thought might be a puma. Que Jonto, no? July 1 With Wendy Roberts, walked out SOR and SSE to x/1000m, then over to SHO and out the CCH for lunch on the bridge. Saw only Steles twice, 2 each time. July 2 Drove to San Jose with Patricia Foyden after breakfast, to work on getting my collecting permit and do some shopping. Alejandro Solozano gave me a photograph of an adult Micrurus nigrocinctus that ingested an eel (swallowed head-first), cf. Synbranchus. July 3 Caught the 0900 hr bus back to La Selva from San Jose. Pretty good rain this afternoon, but only very light drizzle at night. I went through the Cantarana Swamp at ~2115hr and 2330hr and saw no frogs, but because of the moonlight I could walk the boardwalks with no light. Michael Foyden walked on the CES in forest (thus darker) and got 2 Imanthodes inconspicua and one L. cerroa. We saw the latter suspended only by a few cm's of its tail vertically in space, sweeping over leaves and tongue-flicking. July 4 From ~0800-1000 hrs, Wendy and I walked out SOR, CCC, to SSE 900m to check a former nest sight of Azelychmis celestis on a