into, Dean 2008 Journal March 27 Reserva de la Biosfera El Triunfo, Chiapas, Mexico Antonio and Flora stayed at camp to collect tadpoles and Juan Carlos went back to where he and Antonio were yesterday to search for a lost salamander in a log (which we later found with all the others) while Ted, Gabriela and I started to hike back to the cars. We wanted to stop at the pine forest to look for more Dendrobates. We walked down to the Mirador Santa Rita where the cloud forest changes to pine and liquidambar forest with lots of small bromeliads. I opened 3 big, fruit-losing bromeliads at this spot and got 2 Bolitoglossa that look somewhat like B. occidentalis (15.68451°N, 92.7794-79°W [WGS84, 6m acc.], 1777m elev.). They were somewhat more blotchy on the dorsal side and had light speckling on a fairly dark background on the venters. The forest here was fairly open with some grass and arids on the ground. We walked down further and opened many small bromeliads, but found nothing in them; they were dry except in the very center. I opened a total of about 6 big bromeliads and about 20 or more small ones and got 1 more adult female Bolitoglossa (15.6733°N, 92.771325°W [WGS84, 20m acc.], 1700m elev.) in a big bromeliad. I met Abby at the junction with the Ejido Santa Rita trail (15.69102°N, 92.79125°W [WGS84, 8m acc.], 1484m elev.). She and Juan Carlos had found 7 more Bolitoglossa in big Heliconia plants. We looked a lot more here and they got 3 more, Ted got 1 and I got 1. Their coloration varies but all are brown-red to tan with fairly dark undersides. We hiked out and drove back to Fortele. Things I forgot - I got a dead Lephis on trail near camp. J.C. got a juni: neblina/escena where he and Antonio found all the Hendrobates.