Field notes, v4226
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Journal Aug, 23 Chilascó area, Depto. Baja Verapaz, Guatemala We wanted to try B. melanica once more, so we returned to Chilascó. We went past the tour, past Foresta, and went through a gate and some land belonging to Agroindustrias Chilascó, a leather for producer. Most of the forest here has been cut down for for production. We went left at the gate and parked at a small dam on the edge of some very nice liquidambar oak forest with many big bromeliads and some good stumps. We searched from 11:20 - 15:20, focusing mostly on bromeliads, and I got one B. holmrichii. We wanted to get back to Guatemala City by about 5PM, so we left and drove back. The bromeliads were very full of water from a heavy rain yesterday, so it seemed like it might not be very productive to stay. On the road back, we cought a big Cryptophanes percalinatus on the side of CA-9 at km 33. Aug, 26 San Joaquin, Capan, Depto. Capan, Honduras Yesterday, Ted and I left Guatemala City and drove to Capan, Honduras. It rained hard around 5PM, so we drove the road back to the border looking for frogs at night. We found Bufo, Similis, Physalaemus and heard several other species. Today, we went east out of town to San Antonio, then turned N on a dirt road to El Paraíso and stopped in Aldea Buena Vista. We tried to get some locals to look for B. delarivis, since they seem to know it, and one man said he would look. We got another man, Reinaldo, to guide us to Aldea San Joaquin, up a rough dirt road ~30 min away.