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84 EVENTS AND PLACES VISITED
Date Feb. 18, 1963 Monday
Place Barro Colorado Island
Weather Cloudy, warm, humid.
We were both tired, & scarcely went outside the living room all day. We watched Mr. Crabbs' bird nets, & he banded 15 birds, of which I got photos of all the different ones. There were 7 or 8 blue & white humming birds in the brush beside the steps when we came down to breakfast. The howler monkeys in the jungle sounded off several times during the day. In the afternoon 2 of the tapirs came up to the kitchen door to get each a big pan of bread, squash & carrots. After dark we put on the insect light & got several good beettes, altho the most common insects were moths, bees & flies as well as mosquitoes. Several kinds of katydids -very large ones- came to the light, & large praying mantids were hunting the moths too.
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EVENTS AND PLACES VISITED 85
Date Feb. 19, 1963 Tuesday 
Place Barro Colorado Island
Weather Cloudy, humid, rainy.
We took a walk along the Wheeler Trail this morning & saw rainforest plants -huge figtree trunks with mosses, ferns, & shelf-fungi of a lovely orange color, roots everywhere, & great rocks overgrown with creeping philodendrons & other plants. We did not see many insects after last night's heavy rain, nor a single frog, but when we got back, we found dozens of tiny seed ticks crawling on us & beginning to attack. This afternoon I identified my snake as the bronze vine snake, & read another Tarzan story half through. Dr. Moynihan came in for dinner, & is quite a nice young man. -I was collecting insects at the window light for Doris, when a big green katydid turned around & nipped my finger until a drop of blood came. I never knew that grasshoppers could be ferocious!
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