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Hendrickson
1950
Elachistocleis ovale
Nov. 9 Villavieja, 1400 ft., Huila, Colombia, S.A.
with our powerful headlamps. It was
sitting on semifluid mud beneath a
tangle of living and dead grass stems.
Two local boys who watched the
hunt said that many such voices
could be heard about a "charco" (pool)
on the opposite side of the river.
Re-reading my Nov. 6 notes on the
voice of this species, I believe I
would now characterize the voice
as: "eeeeee" (omitting the initial consonant).
This animal seemed to give a definite
response to my attempted imitation
of its call: a hard, nasal "seeee"
produced by setting the jaw hard
together, drawing the mouth corners
as far back as possible, and holding
the nostrils closed while the sound
was produced. The sound seemed
closest to the frog's call when I
kept the volume at a near-minimum.