Field notes, v4226
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Rats, Dear 2008 Journal May 30 La Union, Depts. Zacapa, Guatemala (cont.) ... brown spot on the dorsal hind the legs (sacrum) on a dark brown (maybe a chocolate brown) background. There are also light brown areas behind the eyes and along the dorsal surface of the inner part of the legs. There is some gular mottling of a pale color on the gray base, but less than in C. versipeles. The sides also have many specks of a pale color, while the venter is uniformly dark. There is a rather indistinct light brown dorsal stripe that extends from behind the front legs to just before the hind limbs. Ted and Jacobo didn't find anything. We left to eat churrasco in big flour tortillas (delicious!) in La Union and picked up some Enystomops and Amlusca calling from ditches along the road just below La Union. Our experience today makes me think that maybe C. mangan is not a bromeliad specialist, as we thought, and that it may pass the dry season underground and had now come out due to sustained rains. We saw a mouse opossum driving back down to La Union as well. This site seems like a very important one to conserve, and the forest is still in good shape.