Jan. 2009 Journal Palegua area, Npio San Mateo cxataton, Depto Huchuetanango Guatemala (cont.) Jan. 11... juvenile in a single bromeliad, and we ended up with a total of 6 D. chrysurus plus 5 B. linedni 1 B. lortwigi + 7 B. retrata in 2 hours of searching; all in bromeliads. This forest is unlike others we have worked at in Guatemala; in addition to madrone trees, there are also tons of lig agave plants. We drove back towards Malambojoch and tried to work in the area of forest where the bird and mammal teams had worked earlier, ca. 3 km from Malambojoch, but we had time to open only a few bromeliads before it got dark. The dry weather continued today, which was ideal for bromeliads. It would be nice to get some rain and perhaps have a chance to find Nystacris, though. Jan. 12 Montanas de Pena Blanca Cules Depto Huchuetanango Guatemala We left Malambojoch at 08:00 and drove towards Cules. Along the way we found a Kinosteron crossing the road just past Alden las Palmas where the road to Malambojoch meets the Nanto-Mexican border road. We continued to CA-1, turned off at Coltenango towards Cules and then took a very steep road north to San Francisco El Retiro. We climbed out of extremely dry habitat into more mesic oak-madrone forest; went past San Francisco El Retiro and arrived at a locked chain, behind which is a forest "protected" by INAB. We paid Q100 to have the gate unlocked and drove on to a point 17.1 km (rd) from the main highway. This area is high and dry, with pine-fir-oak forest; grassland and lots of rock. It looks just like the high part of the Cuchumatanes above Huchuetanango.