Rivito, Dean 2008 Journal August 1 Chelentá Natural Reserve, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala Based on how wet we found the cloud forest to be yesterday, we decided that searching in the forest by day would not be productive. We went into the village of Chelentá with our guide, Ernesto, but found nothing but corn and deforested hills. I got a couple of M. unbulotii in grass and under rocks and logs. We talked to the village kids about the famous al-al (B. defilini), but no one brought us one later, although Ernesto brought a black snake (Addrichis ?) from the village. After a late lunch, we walked north over the Montanos de Malijux on a trail to Dequinpur. The forest along the ridge seemed more open and somewhat more disturbed than what we saw yesterday on the way to the mirador. On the north side, the forest changes to second growth and scrub (quamil) below about 2000m, and becomes a cornfield around 1950m. We stopped here and began searching at 19:00. There was some nice primary forest in a ravine near the bottom of the forested area, with many small caves in the limestone. This area looked like where I would expect to see Nyctangis, although its best habitat was probably lower down, where there is no forest left. We searched until about 22:00 and got only 2 B. helndrichi and 7 Graugaster. The forest was wet and I expected to see a lot more, especially after last night.