C Kofrd Journal 11 22 April 1977 No Chilesco, B. Verapaz, Guatemala About 7 a.m., left on walk w. guide Vidal. Up trail to SE to current front. Saw 2 Aubrenypnum tanum (palo de naranja) at 100'; saw red & green toucan. Band of 15+ Colobus in partly cut area. Mitrophanes flycatcher. Red-tailed hummer, Big black & white woodpecker w. red crest & banded breast; many chips (possibly 2). A 30' dead tree in much shade many holes made by feeding birds or some large jagged shape hole; Vidal said quetzal had nested there, no ridge in front among broadleaf trees, saw 1 agami in tree - nearly black. Searched for Calyptorhynchus - no success - the Vidal knew them, said found a tunnel & wooden dracks. Found yellow-brown frog under rotting branch (brown iris, black male striking pattern to eye, 2 bands across forearms; all yellow; in females). Vidal said large toucan occurred - also leonillos, tijerillo (snail-like humming), tipicacaule, low (we reported a week ago). / New cutting below logs. / Another walk in afternoon, on bulldozed trail to N. Saw rain toucan (white area?) saw dead tree; chips w. lifting bark as if capital. A brown bird, not noted, stop stump in clearing. Agami genal. Birds for solenodon; took 2 shrews, an orange alligator lizard, a yellow-brown frog (speckles on lower jaw, chest, anterior thigh; 4 bands across thighs; yellow line at edge of dorso-lateral ridge, yellowish eyelids). Partly opened front. Rain came about 4 p.m. & held rain for an hour or two. Called 3 hooters in forest; saw tracks of mapache (nose) in mud; another trail possibly tapir. Vidal helped search for solenodon, but none found. Rain on & off into night. Heard small owl in night - series of 5 notes. Rain stopped in night but remained overcast. 23 April 1977 Sat. Cuckoos singing night; worked away over 3000 seedling trees & other trees in plastic sacks on banks. / Hot walk up road; 1/4 snake w. yellow ventral underwood. Now search but no solenodon found, the all know them - said sometimes in woodpile or open ground. / We helped retrieve seedlings. Trogan egg (american) fragment near house. Packed boat to Heriberto in Francisco Alvarado, who was friendly. Catcher has one eye, but pleasant. I look sloppy. Hated to jet. Walked Chilesco in about 1 hr (4 km?). Saw Cyanocitta in shrubs. Road to Chiles good,