C Bokofod 2 Journal 13 April 1978. Nr. Chilasco, Dist. Bajo Verapaz, Guatemala. We set up mist nets and put out snap & live traps. Rain at night. Observed early morning. lizard, searched for lopes. Rain evening 14 April 1978. A few more specimens brought in as booty with specimens. A M. Hunt saw Xantusia calliymus, bunted flycatcher. workman cut his foot; Erik drove him halfway down to highway. Rodolfo arrived, & kept Decided a wilsonia p. + 2 Empidonax flavescens. us up in evening w. talk & beer. No rain at night. Released a Turdus grayi (Bill D.) 56. 15 April 1978. Checked traps & nets. Then departed 1030 & all 6 drove to Puerin ranch. Grosscopy saw roadrunner in pine + brush area on road down from Chilasco, about 5 rods'. Visited clinic. Dr. Carlos wrote; may return today, & we talked w. him. Drove to Totonicapan for supplies. Then back to Chilasco. Stopped at Concepciona Colonia for river level. We checked nets & set out traps. No rain. Saw Empidonax fulvifrons. 16 April 1978. Foggy morning. Opened specimens. Two species altopetris tolum, a. brunneicosta in a snap trap (20X). Some of us went for hike w. Rodolfo & gun, but anlew no tolum. Driest day yet; breeze + cumulus clouds. Walked out road SE of town for a mile, into forest. Set 17 traps, searched near stream. But no birded + roads + narrow bodies, out to see if tolum. Heard and saw at least 5 quetzals, calling, moving from tree to tree in loose branches, some over 20. Probably several more. I am seeing bird usual and but could not see it; spent an hour on trail w. gun after 8pm hope: but saw no eyeskin, not even frogs! 1/2 moon + nearly clear. Warm air. 17 April 1978. Clear sunny morning. My traps held 3 big Peromyscus of common linds. One steel trap sprung (by mouse?). Bait in open not eaten. saw Colaptes, jay, Empidonax fulvifrons, liverated woodpecker >7 + & (voicing; chit- chit - chittle), on trunk 100' living tree in opened forest. Possibly a Pileos- caster -> to. / Brown + reddish-brown bird flew from 3" diam. hole in roadside bank; about 10a.m. I set a mousetrap in hole. Others how (flewd birds from). Helen found similar birds later in other roadbanks, but no few how not identified inhabitants. / Erik spent 2 hrs. showing 3 VEEP volunteers how to skin mice. I walked back to my traps area w. shotgun about 0930 but found