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Kendrickson
1950
Leptodactylus "lirasta"
2
Apr. 6 5 a.m. N Villavici, 400 ft., Huila, Colombia, S.A.
cavity. All the "lirasta" were found
sitting on the soil surface (not in
holes or pockets); at least two
"minuta" were also found there.
The vegetation in the part of the
field where the frogs were found
consisted of small (4"- 4") banana
plants, 3'-6' sugar cane (in rows about
3' apart), seed rice, and tangled,
Bermuda-like grass. This part of
the field was covered with stagnant
puddles containing much blankets
of bacterial (?) slime in most parts.
The mosquitoes were abundant, and
numbers of '1/2"- 1" tadpoles were present,
indicating at least semi-permanence
of the puddles. Late in the evening,
by about 10:30 P.M., the calling began
to diminish until we finally gave
up trying to locate more
animals by their calls. See Dr.
Stebbins notes for color
descriptions of "minuta" and "lirasta".
See also species account "Leptodactylus
froth nest" for this date. Paulino
says both species call at all seasons of the
year the same as we have heard them
here.