Field notes, v1609
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13. Shaffer 1977. Journal San Juan Ixcay, Huehuetenango, Guat. 25 June worked a fairly wet cool dry patch of pine for B. omnia sactform - a rostrata-like population. It was quite dry but under bark, inside stumps, & occasionally under rocks we found some. Paul got six in one stump, all bunched together, presumably to keep wet. We also got a few more Barisia & another Sceloporus, and called it a day. One other thing - I found a bunch of slugs at the rostrata- rex locality that looks just like a rostrata. I'll have a picture of it, & maybe pickle one or two. It looks like either convergence or mimicry on the stri brown stripe on dark background. This night we went back up the road about 1/2 mile & walked the road cut - but found nothing. 26 June Barillas (= Santa Cruz Barillas) Dept. Huehuetenango We stayed at Ixcay 'till about 2 PM pickling and fixing our cache from 25 June - total of ~200 animals. We paid up ($11.00 for both, = ~$2.50/person/day, room + board) and left out the road toward Barillas. The road is good- very passable at 20 mph. We stopped at Soloma for gas, then pushed on to a patch of madrone-