Ravito, Dean 2008 Journal Above San José de los Andes, Montána de Santa Barbara, Aerito. Santa Barbara, Honduras Jan. 7 We drove up to San José de los Andes after breakfast with Malcolm, a British bird guide who moved here a few months ago. We met Mares, a guide recommended by Bob Dale at P&D, and started walking uphill around 09:30. At first we passed through moist forest and cleared areas but we quickly started to see big trees with epiphytes and good bromeliads. We started opening bromeliads at 10:30 around 1700m, but found nothing although they seemed great. We kept hiking uphill and got into nice cloud forest with immense hardwood trees, a lot of epiphytes and a good understory around 1800m and opened a lot of bromeliads without success before stopping for lunch. Malcolm didn't search for salamanders, but Mares did. After lunch, we hiked up to 2000m and one of the first bromeliads I opened had 2 Dendrobates sanctibartbarus. We searched in the very abundant bromeliads here from 14:00- 15:30; I got 1 more, Ted got 4 and Marcos got 2. The salamanders seem abundant here, but I don't understand why there isn't a Blitoglossa sp. known from this area. We chopped some more bromeliads on the way down around 1800m and heard a male quetzal calling (Marcos saw it). We got back to San José just as a light rain started, after having been nice or just cloudy all day. This was an exciting day of collecting for me, and I expect that this mountain really merits further searching.