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APRIL 27, 1949. - CONT.
ON THEM QUITE A FEW OF THE STREAMS WE CROSSED
HAVE WATER IN THEM.

APRIL 28, 1949 - 1 MI. SW OF SAN JOSE DEL CONDE, 3000 FT.
MACINTOSH BROUGHT IN A PHYLLODACTYLUS LANEI WHICH
WE HAD CAUGHT IN A MOUSE TRAP DURING THE NIGHT.

THIS IS A VERY DRY CAMPSITE, AMONGST MESQUITE
AND CACTI, WITH LITTLE OR NO COVER. THERE ARE DEEPER
VALLEYS ON EITHER SIDE OF THE RIDGE WE ARE ON, AND
THERE IS WATER IN THESE. I COLLECTED SMALL SERIES OF
THE CNEMIDOPS AND SCELOPS IN THE CANYON TO THE WEST
OF THE CAMP, AS WELL AS AN ANOLIS AND SOME PIPIENS.

WHEN I RETURNED TO CAMP, THE MASTOS TOLD ME OF
A BARRANCE EAST OF THE CAMP, WITH MUCH WATER, BANANAS
AND ELEPHANT EARS. I WENT OVER, AND FOUND A GREEN
SPRING FED VALLEY, WITH MUCH LIFE. I GOT [illegible],
HYLA AND LEPTODEIRA, IN THE BANANA BOLES AND ELEPHANT
EARS.

WE DROVE BACK TO SAN JOSE DEL CONDE, AND TOOK A
ROAD TO THE EAST, WHICH WENT DIRECTLY TO THE HIGHWAY
BY WAY OF TETITLAN, COMING OUT SE OF SANTA ISABEL WE
DROVE OUT THE HIGHWAY ABOUT 3 MILES N. OF SANTA ISABEL AND
MADE CAMP.

APRIL 29, 1949 - 3 MI. N. OF SANTA ISABEL, 3800 FT.
OUR CAMP IS IN A CREEK BED JUST TO THE EAST OF
THE ROAD, AND I FOLLOWED THIS CREEK DOWN TO A FALLS,
WHICH I CIRCLED, COMING OUT IN A BANANA GOVE. I SHOT
SMALL SERIES OF THE SCELOPS & CNEMIDOPS, AND ALSO PICKED

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APRIL 29, 1949 - CONT.
UP AN ANOLIS & A CTENOSAURA, THE LATTER WAS ON ROCKS HIGH
ON A BLUFF.

THERE IS CONSIDERABLE PERMANENT, FLOWING
WATER AT THIS LOCALITY. IT FLOWS SO RAPIDLY AND DEEPLY,
HOWEVER, THAT IT IS RATHER DISCOURAGING TO NERI LIFE. ALL
ROCKS ARE BURIED IN SAND AND ARE UNTURNABLE. I GOT
A LITTLE ELEUTHERODACTYLUS UNDER A ROCK IN THE AFTERNOON,
ALONG THE RIVER, AND ALSO GOT ANOTHER AGALYCHNIS.

APRIL 30, 1949. 3 MI. N. OF SANTA ISABEL.
SINCE I COLLECTED MOST OF THE COMMON STUFF HERE
YESTERDAY, I HUNTED TODAY FOR THE REST OF THE NERI
FAUNA. I GOT ONLY A SCELOP FOR ITS SKULL BESIDES A
SNAKE WHICH LOOKS LIKE HYPSIGLENA AFFINIS, DEAD IN A PATH
AND PRETTY BADLY CRUSHED. I'VE TWO OF THEM NOW, AND THEY
HAD BEEN PREVIOUSLY REPORTED FROM ONLY TWO LOCALITIES IN
MEXICO. IT WAS IN A PATH HIGH ON A HILL, COVERED WITH
LONG GRASS. THAT WAS ALL I FOUND ALL DAY.

MAY 1, 1949.
GOT A LATE START, AS THE MASTOS GOT BACK QUITE LATE,
I WENT EAST UP THE HIGHWAY TO THE NIGA HILLS. THERE
I SAW CTENOSAURS ON THE ROCKS, BUT COULD GET NONE. I SHOT
A SCELOPS THERE ALSO. MOST OF THE AREA WAS SEVERELY
BURNED OVER, AND THERE WERE NO LIZARDS IN THE BURNED
AREAS.

SEVERAL OF THE STREAM CUT VALLEYS HAVE WATER
FLOWING IN THEM, AND I FOLLOWED ONE UP. FOUND PIPIENS