Rovito, Dear 2010 Journal La Fortaleza, Mpio. Santa Maria Chimalapa, Oaxaca, Mexico Aug. 10 Spent all morning preparing specimens. Went out w/ our guide, [illegible], and another guide to a patch of forest SE of town. Started in cattle pasture around 14:00, hiked into a forest w/s big trees and w/ a thick understory of silky palms, thorns, lianas + bamboos. Searched for ~45 min before Tom went back (felt sick) & Susan went with him. Searched under tons of logs but found nothing. Finally got a [illegible] that was out amongst the leaves at the base of a small palm. Finally arrived at a better patch of forest that hadn't been burned - bigger trees, thick leaf litter, sporadic understory. Continued to look under good logs; found only a Gracixalus (pygmaeus?) that got away. Walked back out to road. Chris searched in some green bananas, got a B. rufescens. Stopped at a magnificent cave on the way back w/ huge chambers, beautiful rock formations, clear pools + a few bats but found no herps. Returned to base around 18:00. At night, everyone but Ted went out to search. Found Rana + Bufo wallcopes around town, plus tons of B. marinus. Along trail, got 2 C. alfredi (saw ~2 more), 4 C. [illegible], 1 [illegible], a Sphenomorphus chierchei (killed when captured) and 3 Andis [illegible] (collected 2) along stream. I saw a thin yellow tail under a rock in shallow water in stream + we spent ~20 min searching before we figured out they were freshwater eels. We searched from 21:10 - 00:00; Tom & Susan turned back around 22:45. Rained moderately hard from ~ 22:15 - 23:00, was reasonably cool for most of day.