Field notes, v4226
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hairs, Dear 2007 Journal Aug. 1 MontaƱas de Cuiler, Depto. Huehuetenango, Guatemala (cont.) Paraƭsos and Cija Blanca, where Lynch and Elias had stopped to collect Dendrotriton raldii and B. lincolni in the forest above the road. We parked and walked up a trail south from the road, and started searching in bromeliads at 13:50. There are still some huge trees left but parts of the forest have been logged, and it wasn't as pristine as Elias described. We searched in bromeliads, under logs and under rocks, and I found a snake (Silbon?) under a big rock. Ted went uphill to search in logs and Carlos, Austavo and I stayed together with the bromeliad cutter. At ~2300m elev., there were no more bromeliads and only secondary forest. I found a B. lincolnii under a piece of wood and Austavo found another big adult under a log. We searched under logs up to ~2450m and then headed back down to where the bromeliads were. The saw on the cutter broke, so we only could open the bromeliads within reach, which were few. Carlos knocked a small one down with the cutter handle and found a tiny Dendrotriton raldii. We continued downhill but found no more Salamanders. I found a Rana along the road, where we stopped searching at 15:00. We drove down to the highway, but got there too late to find anywhere to look for B. marathl. Stayed at Hotel Oasis (very nice) in La Negilla (not so nice). Total for day: 2 B. lincolnii 1 Dendrotriton raldii 1 Silbon 1 Rana