four hundred feet elevation, then coffee. Coffee is grown on very steep slopes and with much shade so that a facing hillside looks like forest but is really coffee under big dense shade trees. At about 1500m near the upper limit of coffee we saw 2 brown-birds growing on a steep road cut. One contained a frog and the other a salamander. This started a search for a mil or two up the road in perhaps 30 available brown-birds. Caught 3? kinds of frogs and about a dozen salamanders plus assorted flatworms, cockroaches, grubs, etc. etc. The biggest salamander stood a brown-bird with a small one, and several shed milktooths. A small cluster of eggs, maybe salamander, was between brown-bird lines. Several salamanders seemed "stunned", lethargic, dead dead, but one wriggled frontally when probed with a knife. While we were at 1500m it rained down around 1000m making the road a mess in places. Perfectly dry down lower. The man we rented the jeep from (seemed very sensible) says 2 rainy seasons, one around April and another around September. Found squadd [illegible] on road in coffee country about 1000m x King mittwort flecks + louts all together, searing. jan.3 Drove from Pedrera to Barranquillo 7-9 a.m. Wonderful seeing, much of the way with serious crocodiles, cavecaran, howls, squirrels etc. A large monkey dead on road, reddish brown.