Roots, Dean 2011 Journal June 7 2.1km NW (by rd) of Chimalgo, on road to Panajachel, Quiche, Guatemala (cont.) ... it rained hard for 1-2 hours while we had dinner. At 20:15, I walked up the road (which was muddy & slippery) to the forest, arriving at 20:45. It was very misty, but barely raining. I searched along the same path I had walked in the afternoon, and it began to rain heavily around 22:00. I saw 13 B. marinus; 2 were on the lower part (<50cm off ground) of tree trunks, and 11 were on the leaf litter. I also saw 6 B. caucanthus; 3 were on tree trunks (0.5-1.5m off ground), 2 were on the ground and one was on the road bank alongside the forest. I found a very small adult male salamander on the leaf litter that looks like (and probably is) a B. marinus, but it had brownish rather than grey dorsal coloration and seemed to have slightly less webbed feet. It was in an area of mixed pine-oak forest and I found several B. marinus nearby. I think it's the smallest adult I got if it's B. marinus; collected it in case it turns out to be different. I am surprised by the lack of any Gargaras in this forest - on a wet night like tonight, I would have expected to see them. The apparent rarity of Anolis is also surprising, although my focus on Bromelbirds & frogs may have prevented me from finding many lizards. Aside from a single adult I've seen (I just couldn't catch - yellow/green + black) on the first day, I saw no snakes, either. Our guide on the first day, Manuel, described an arboreal green viper that sounds like Bothrops asper, but didn't seem to know of Cerophis; maybe it's not here. Would be worth returning here in the dry season to do Bromeliad sampling, which I expect would turn up a Bothrops melanura, since we found one at a nearby site in a bromeliad in late March.