Journal 12 February 1972 Penajachel, Guatemala been visiting air strips of oil companies, a sulphur company. But probably mostly abandoned. Stuart had been to most airstrips in Petén years ago; but had never seen a jaguar. Once shot an ocelot, lay waiting at den boat. Pacific coast - wet from Escuintla to S. Chapa?. But fauna there mostly replaced by cotton. /Stuart not particularly interested in birds & mammals. Much general information on gography, people of Guatemala. Friends of many prominent persons, and or an O.T.S. & board. Many visiting foreign- and students visit him. We stayed as Tikal has been a National Park, about 16 mi. square, for many years. / Game laws, 1971 - Probab. hunting & capture of ocelot, margay, & "jackborn" of jaguar. Ministry of Agric., Div. Recur. de Recursos Naturales Renovables, Div. Fauna. Export skins require license, but tax. / Game laws tight here (265). I saw no people with guns along our route (the many in Mexico). Perhaps people den hunting oriented. 13 February 1972. Sunday. "Pancha" Stuart took me to visit the market at Chichicastenango; large & colorful. No sets in woven ceramics & sculpture, but many represented in old pots & clay figures in small museum here. / We walked in area. Orchids numerous. Costa on lake, & we saw 2 Batlylmbus near a clump of reeds in front of Hotel Atitlán. Birds not abundant. I saw no birds in evenings; & Stuart said he had never seen one here. He thought that Alta Verapaz, where many dimictus come, a good spot for birds. / On lake saw gp. 3 ducks (smell, dark), 2 shadewite. Flycatchers in trees. Vegetation of area mostly short forest, now dry, largely deciduous, with greener