Field notes, v4226
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Panto, Sean 2007 Journal San Marcos area, Depto. San Marcos, Guatemala Aug. 14 We drove down to the "nino people's" house at 08:30AM to meet Herran Sanchez, Sra. Sandaval's son (I think). He collected for Jim Lynch in the 70s. I asked him to take us to the exact spot where he found so many salamanders in the past. We drove to just above Restaurante Dierados, ~1km downhill from Buena Vista, and walked upslope away from the road. We started searching in a logged area with a lot of stumps at 08:50, and soon got into nice cloud forest. We searched in stumps and bromeliads until 11:20 but found only a single D. israelianus in a bromeliad. The Pseudoeurycea seem truly to be gone. We drove down to Finca Chiquita and tried to find more bromeliads in the cypress forest for ~30min, but I could only find stumps to search in. I got a Eleutherodactylus mexialis under a piece of wood. On the way out towards the road, we searched in fairly good secondary forest (with some original big trees) from 13:45-15:00, but found nothing despite opening some nice bromeliads. It rained during the afternoon. We drove up to the high plateau above San Marcos and searched at the junction of the Tajumulco and Jacara roads under great rocks in bunchgrass habitat for 45 min (16:55-17:40) but found nothing. Finally, we drove up to the forest near Flores de Chichiguan where we searched in 2005. I got a Salpormus in a rocky area and a P. rex under the bank of a log from 18:00-18:45, as well as a Mesopogon. We searched on