Field notes, v1307
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Greene, H. 1990 July 13 (continued) and stretched horizontal on a limb less than its diameter. at 2209 hr we spotted an adult Ithaca surgya crawling slowly off the trail from the lab leading to the river station. It threatened and circled my fingers several times w/ its complete tail (30.4g, 408+290 mm). at approx 1030 hr Tina Brown called me to see a subadult (approx 1.3 m total length) Hachesis muta at CCC 6/10 m. The snake was coiled and awake, approx 10 m west of the trail, on open ground among palms. When I approached for photos it raised the head a few cm, almost vertically, oriented to me, and tongue-flicked. at approx 1130 hr. several people (including Sean O'Brien, U. West Virginia, who took photos) watched what was evidently an adult Pseudoboa poeciloratus eat two eggs of a little finch, Crypturellus soui. They had stopped to see the snake, described as olive w/ a yellow belly, then noticed the