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Nordribsen
1950
Journal
49
Nov. 14 Bogota', 8500 ft., Cundinamarca, Colombia, S. A.
[illegible] Phyllodactylus)
two anuran (?) voices which I believe
may well have represented 2 other
species. One was probably myel (?)
frog.
(Extracted from today's entries in pocket
notebook):
Jose Borrero, of Instituto de Ciencias Naturales,
Bogota, hunting near Toraima (No Dirarbot)
in Magdalena Valley on Nov. 11 & 12, 1950,
killed 32? and 30? and 10? Colinus
critatus. All males had enlarged
testes; all females had enlarged
ovaries and/or ovidecal eggs. One female
when flushed, dropped an egg while in
flight.
Between Nov. 18 Nov. 12, clearing operations
on 4 hectares of land in same place
(Near Toraima) resulted in finding of 14
rattlesnakes, 2 "scis" (bushmaster?), and
2 "corales" (coral or king snakes?)
Nov. 15 Wrote notes and attended to miscellaneous
chores downtown in the morning. In
P.M. (3:00?) went with Perico, Paulino, and Alfredo
(waiter in our hotel) to Instituto, leaving the
Villavieja skins and gonads in Borrero's lab.
for safekeeping while we are in Villavicencio.
Borrero gave me the skin and skull (crushed)