Field notes, v1308
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Greene, It. 1997 June 17 We stopped at the plank bench x1010h (continued) but still too cloudy and hazy for good photos. I could actually hear birds singing and some sort of squawking duettle as well as single calls from a distance that reminded me of toucans. We saw no herps, back to Station x1230h. Nikolai gave me two female Trimeresurus morticola that hunters brought in the # layer in late May, the smaller in June, as well as a beautiful young Pseudorodon varvunicola he found last night in a streambed. As he predicted, when Dave Hardy and I photographed the latter this afternoon, it repeated and also briefly flashed a hood which bears a crude large ocellus-like marking. x1900 starts to rain. Dave Wake, Majorie, and Kelly went to the next pond & returned up in the hour because of the storm, catching a big Ichthyophis bannanicus on the same staircase from the pond area into town. Tool was on the staircase to the tower when the storm hit and said the steps turned into forests and he gave up on