Field notes, v4226
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Ravito, Dear 2008 Journal Jan. 15 El Portillo de Ostopeque and Dolores Morender, Depto. Ostopeque, Honduras (east) ... I got a Bolitoglossa synaria in a medium sized bromeliad in good forest, the last one I opened. I think that it is only known from the nearby Cerro Pital on both sides of the border. We must have been too high for B. conanti. Although he was friendly and helped look for lizards, our soldier seemed anxious to get back, so we left and drove N of CA4 towards Fraternidad from just E of the pass, and then took the turnoff to Dolores Morender. This area was extremely cut over, but obviously had some really nice pine-oak and liquidamber forest in the past. We finally found a small patch of forest, maybe 1 ha. total area, with big trees and many bromeliads. We searched from 16:30-18:00 and I got a juvenile B. conanti in a bromeliad. I spent the last 30 min. raking through leaf litter around the big trees looking for Oedipoda, with no success. On the way back, we stopped at a ditch 6.4 km N of CA4 where a lot of Pama brachyura and Bufo crasus were calling; we collected 2 of each, mostly to test for chytrid. Spent the night in Santa Rosa de Copan. Jan. 16 Finca la Bendicion, above Zacapa, Depto. Zacapa, Guatemala We left Honduras through El Florido and went up towards Finca La Bendicion; which we tried but failed to get to on Jan.3. The road had dried out and we drove all the way there (not far past where we stopped last time).