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Nordruchson
1950
Journal
14
Oct. 21 5 km N Villavieja, 1400 ft., Huila, Colombia, S.A.
before dusk. Set out 25 Museum Speciale;
around camp (incl. 5 tree sets) and along
brushy edges of quebrada 5 of camp.
Dr. Stebbins and I walked about '8-1/4
mile down quebrada 5 of camp after dark.
Collected Bufo granulosis, Hyla crepitans,
and "ranidi" (see species accounts)
Oct. 22 During the night something (bat?)
afe part of one of the bananas in a
basket of fruit hanging in camp.
25 traps out yielded no rodents
(see Hyla crepitans species account).
I left camp at about 6:15 A.M. and
walked to town along the railroad
track, returning by the same route
and arriving in camp at about 10:00 A.M.)
En route back to camp, a large,
raddish-brown hawk flew low
overhead, carrying a frog. At one
point there is a cattle crossing across
the R.R. tracks, with a cattle guard
at each side of the crossing. The guard
is a box-like concrete pit about
4' deep. In one I found 2 snake
vertebral columns; in the other I
found the remains of an armadillo.
Temp, in shade, at camp at 1:30 P.M.