Seib, R. 1984 Comitan, Chiapas, Mexico 2) Oct. Kiki is still very sick. Allison and I got up at 6:00 to drive out to the cloud forest beyond the ridge of mountains past Los Margaritas. The road is beautifully paved to there, but is bad and ungraded beyond. We attempted this for 3 miles, but we learned that it was another 4 hr. to the mountain and knew we could not make it there. Turned back and went instead to Angara Agua Tinta (or Santa Elena). It is located on the graded road out of Monte Bello on the way to Bonampak; its elevation is 740m. I was here 6 yrs ago and wanted to compare snipe diversity now with what it was on a new finca. Previously the finca was a small plot of coffee located in vast virgin lowland cloud forest. Back then there were only three species, including Micrurus Pliocercus, but mostly Uncia sebae. I hypothesized that with time the new finca would diversify with an influx of species from the surrounding virgin forest. The problem with my idea is this: In the last six years all of the forest has been cleared. The whole area has just been devastated by humans who cut everything in sight and left not one tree standing anywhere in most cases.