Field notes, v4224
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Huchuetango to Barrillas, Lorra de los Cuchumatanes, Repts. Huchuetango, Guatemala (cent) Oct. 28 ... who promised to collect salamanders for us. We drove through San Juan Chasy and Dolmo), and then past Santa Eulalia. Most of the forest in the valley past Sta. Eulalia was cut down and the land appeared to be used for grazing and farming. We stopped in Aldea Mach, about 1km N 40 Km past Melvitz and just past Sta. Eulalia, where of Sta. of Sta. Eulalia, we found a small patch of pine forest along the road. I searched in stumps and logs for 30 min in the forest and found one Bolitoglossa (rostrota or cuchumatana). The forest had some large pine trees and ferns. Ernesto found 7 salamanders in tree trunks. Adriela and Ted found 12 salamanders in recently cut logs with peeling bark. In total, we found 17 B. rostrota, [illegible] B. cuchumatana, and 3 B. Hartwegi (15.73460°N, 91.48743°W [WGS84, 10m acc.], 2618 m elev. for my salamander). Ernesto also caught 3 juvenile Bolts rostroti. We then drove further along the road to a high elevation area with pine trees, many logs and stumps, and some brush, 51.4 Km from our first stop dry road. I found 1 B. rostrota under a rock and Ernesto found one as well (15.80463°N, 91.51106°W [WGS84, 5m acc.], 3129 m elev). as well as We also caught 4 Mesaspis matolati and 1 Daclopserma malochitica (13.7 Km N of Sta. Eulalia) G Daclopserma group. We drove on to a spot 53.7 Km dry road from our first stop, where there were [illegible] pine trees with areas of grass and many rolling logs. It was rather cold and seemed