sto, Sean 2009 Journal Nican Maderas, Ojo de Agua, Depto Rincon, Nicaragua. Aug. 23 We started hiking at 08:00 at Finca Magdalena in dry forest. Quickly moved through dry forest and got to an area of cacao trees with wet leaf litter and some large broadleaf trees. Grapefruits were abundant here; 5 of us collected 18 C. laurenti and 4 C. fitzingeri in leaf litter in ~30 min. Our guide, Jara, saw an armadillo? Continued uphill with a dramatic vegetation change to a misty cloud forest with abundant ferns and some epiphytes (few bromeliads though) as we passed the cloud line at ~600m. Reached camp at 800m and started searching at 13:00 along trail; Bolitoglossa insularis have all been found dry day so far, including in the morning by guides. Opened logs, turned stones and checked in and on vegetation. Jara got a Deltor calvatus on a big fern; while Javier and Derin got a Diphenomorphus cherrei and several C. fitzingeri. Javier, Jara and I walked very slowly up to ~1150m, where the trees are much lower and have a thick covering of moss, and waited from 17:30 - 17:50 for it to get dark. Followed track and slowly searched with lights all the way back to camp. I saw an arboreal rodent and a Marmosa as well as a few Grapefruits, and passed Ted + Derin on the way down. Night was raining after a very misty day with drizzle, and cool with a lot of wind; perhaps too much for the salamanders. We all returned separately to camp between 22:30 and 23:00 without any salamanders. In addition to the possible rarity of this species (B. insularis), I think that the windy weather reduced our success. Still, cloud forest was incredible, especially considering its setting.