Field notes, v1351
Page 101
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Hendrickson 1950 31 Journal Apr. 8 Villavieja, 1400 ft., Huila, Colombia, S. A. places. A small stream (perhaps others not seen, also) drains the island. It was up to 6" deep, 3'-4' wide when seen. At the point where this stream joins the river is the place where Paulino led us to look for a caiman: fallen tree stream draining island = sloping sand- mud banks on bar O = 2 places where claw and drag marks seen quiet water of "charco" swift water of river (see spacier account, caiman) We proceeded on to a point which I believe is about central on the island. In a banana patch there, we talked with a man who had killed and buried a snake the day before. We excavated the animal - a boa - and Dr. H[illegible] Stibbins kept the skin and head. In this same patch we worked around a 25'x70'x6"-10" deep pool, containing dead and rotting banana leaves. I collected a turtle and saw the dead shell of a large