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Nov. 5
Chiquian and Finca Sta. Julia, Depto. San Marcos, Guatemala (sat.)
...workers if they knew the caecilians (using a photo) and they all did, but the trash heap where so many had been collected in the past behind the houses had been cleared up. The manager told us there were many of them living in the pulpo (discarded coffee bean fruits after beans removed), but only during the rainy season were they seen out. I declined to wade through the large pool of water and coffee compost and looked in a few banana trees behind people's houses but found nothing. The manager told us that the finca was now certified organic and sold its coffee to Starbucks. We drove back towards town and looked in a few more banana trees; Ernesto found 3 Eleutherodactylus (14.92257N, 91.90167W [WGS84, 20 m asl], 1138 m elev.) in the coffee bushes along the road. We gave up and drove back to Buena Vista, where the same boy from yesterday (René) brought us 3 B. andris and a salamander with brown blotches that may be a hybrid between B. lindae and B. franklini. We drove ~2km towards San Marcos to another house where we had left frogs with children. They hadn't found any salamanders but did collect 4 M. meroleti in the surrounding area (14.94316N, 91.83871W [WGS84, 6 m asl], 2497 m elev. - used sure GPS as for B. andris I collected nearby on 11/3). We drove back to San Marcos and spent a final evening at the Hotel Perez, preparing specimens.