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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).