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March 17, 1949. - Cerro San Andres.
Notes on frog before preservation (Hyla lafrentzi) golden-orange colored around paired dark spots on back. The entire animal has a golden shine in the olive-green skin. The ground color is light green, the side stripe is brownish- green. The dorsal side of the fingers and toes is quite golden colored - or bronzy.

March 19, 1949 - Cerro San Andres.
Drove to town for supplies with McVaugh, so that I could collect lower down. After going to town we went back up the mountain to a stream at 7,800 feet. Chiefly pine, with some oaks. Floor was heavily covered with pine needles, and there were quite a few rocks on the slope. Turning rocks produced a Conopsis. McVaugh collected a Salvadora bairdii and a Hyla bistincta for me on the slopes. I caught another of the small Hyla, which are either lafrentzi or eximia. The hind leg has T.T. art. to the eye, but they are colored exactly as the lafrentzi from the D.F. 

March 20, 1949 - Cerro San Andres.
Worked up the canyon behind the camp. This canyon is quite damp, and well supplied with springs. There is a fairly deep stream in it, flowing rapidly. Some of the springs are quite hot, practicaly boiling as it comes out. Rana pipiens is very abundant in the stream, and there are many tadpoles in the stream. There are no axolotls in it, however. I got a series of 21 Hyla - again the lafrentzi-eximia thing. They were all under bark on damp logs lying along and
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