Knuts, Dean 2012 Journal Oct. 8 Oaxacales and Miquihuana area, Sinalojas, Mexico (cont.) ... burned and got a Chiropteristis (looks like multidentatus) in the last one, ca. 2m off the ground in a small tree. Mosquitos and stinging plants were quite bad here, and we were happy to leave, although the spot is quite beautiful. We drove back to Jula, went N to Palmitos, turned off toward Miquihuana and then to La Perla. Countryside is beautiful here; Chihuahua desert and some oak woodland. From La Perla, we took a dirt road steeply uphill towards Valle Hermoso, which passed through desert, then scrubby juniper and pine, and finally into pine forest. We searched in the pine briefly but it was really dry. Drove on ~1km and got to a mixed oak-madrone woodland with a few pines. Searched in leaf litter (not very deep), under rocks, under logs, and in dead agave from 15:00-17:15. I got a Sceloporus in agave. Mariana got another under a piece of bark and a Psuedreeses galancus under a rock. This looks like marginal salamannder habitat, although not unlike the Sierra Nevada foothills or Kern Plateau in CA. The P. galancus looks a lot like P. cephalis from Queretaro, with small grey+brown spots. We continued 2.5km up the road after photographing the animals and the habitat changed to an open pine woodland w/ tons of agave. Had burned in the past; lots of logs, many turned. Searched 18:00-18:35. I got a P. galancus inside the leaves of a dead agave + another tiny one under the bark of a fallen log; Paula got another just under a log. Also collected 4 Sceloporus from under logs+bark. It was cloudy most of the day (rained last night), but cleared up in afternoon. Drove to Miquihuana to spend the night.