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Hendrickson
1950
Journal
Bogota, 8700 ft., Cundinamarca, Colombia, S. A.
Oct. 15 Dr. Stebbins and I walked from the
Claridge Hotel to the slopes bordering the
city on the E. We collected together from
about 3:00 P.M. to about 5:00 P.M. His notes
and mine will be found to overlap and
supplement each other. The slopes coming
down to the city on its E side are covered
with matted green grass somewhat resembling
Bermuda grass—perhaps more coarse. Clover
occurs interposed through the grass and
a composite bush about 2 feet high grows
scattered over the hillside, singly or in
clumps. All over the hillside were audible
a chorus of cricket-like chirps which we
I am almost certain were produced by
Elaeodera [illegible] Pheylla [illegible] subgeminatus.
Eleutherobactylus bogotensis We collected
a number of this species, and “chirps”
followed as closely as possible to their
source revealed one of the frogs under the
rock. The noise was produced at about
2 second intervals by individuals which
were singled out from the chorus. Using
Dr. Stebbins pitch-pipe, we decided the
main tone heard was almost exactly 2
octaves above violin A. Syllabified, the
call sounded to me like:
tweee <2 sec> tweee <2 sec> tweee....