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Hendrickson
1950
Iguana
Oct. 25 5 km. N. Villavieja, 1400 ft., Huila, Colombia, S.A.
At about 7 A.M. Benico led me to
a 3'-3 1/2" (total length) specimen ensconced
in the topmost branches of a slender
(indigofera suffruticosa? very tall for the tree?)
tree. It was about 40 feet off the
ground. The tree was in a dense thicket
on the S side of the quebrada S of camp,
about 75 yds E. of the banana patch
[which is]
(almost due S of camp). I climbed as
high as I was able, and, after a
number of unsuccessful attempts, pulled
the noose taut on the animal. It
wriggled free, and fell to the
ground, and escaped. It seemed more
yellow (less green) than the one
Dr. Stebbins brought in on Oct. 23 (?).
It was more sluggish than I had
expected, allowing considerable thrashing
of its perch and abortive attempts
with the noose and making only minor
evasive movements. Was it warming
up in the sun at that hour, and
would it have been more wary later
or in the heat of the day?
Nov. 1
+3 km. N. Villavieja, 1400 ft., Huila, Colombia, S.A.
Paulino thinks he saw an individual
beside the Magdalena River just S of
Quebrada Fajas. The area is one of big trees.