Field notes, v4225
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Haith, Sean 2006 Journal Aug. 31 Cerrito Mazatal (Motaguitla area), Chiapas, Mexico (cont.) ... from 1210-1310 but found only a Bufo bucestii. We should have found Pseudourysces here but we didn't, even though the habitat seemed good. We drove km down from the top and searched along an abandoned road in secondary pine forest with some hardwood trees and many bromeliads from about 1400 to 1500. I found a Cerophidion godmani under a rock (15.42799°N, 92.33536°W [WGS84, 8m acc.], 287m elev.). The others got 3 B. f. migriflavescens and 1 Mesaspis modelti. We drove back to Motaguitla in a very heavy rain and had to wait ~1.5 hrs for a landslide to be cleared. We drove from Motaguitla south towards the town of Niquinil, but did not get far enough to find a good spot to work before dark. This area would be a good place to work in the future. Sept. 1 Cerrito Izantehuitz, San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico We left Motaguitla and drove to San Cristobal de las Casas. On the way, we stopped about 4km S of La Fronterita to look for Bolitoglossa atrosti (16.08334°N, 92.04447°W [WGS84, 7m acc.], 1536m elev.). We searched from 1530-1600 under limestone rocks and in a few bromeliads in dry forest. The area was fairly moist and conditions seemed good, but we found nothing. We continued on to San Cristobal and drove to the top of Cerrito Izantehuitz, parking at the microwave towers. We searched on the roadbank with lights from 2000 until about 2100 in a light rain. We found 11 B. leopoldi; 1 juvenile and