Novo, Dean 2013 Journal Ejido Constitucion, Sierra Espinosa del Hiale, Chiapas, Mexico Aug. 14 I left Mexico City on July 12 w/ Zach Hanna + Anna Hiller from Berkeley, Jose Sanchez Ortiz + Omar Becerra from the Instituto de Biologia, and Mario Ortiz, Hector Olgun, and Hector Capetana from the Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM. We spent the night in Acajuncan, drove to Tuxtla the next morning + met Sergio Perez, who had come by bus from Guatemala. Spent night in Catalepa. Drove to Ejido Constitucion the next morning or shortly read to San Felipe, Nervering that passes to the South of the Sierra Espinosa del Hiale. Arrived around 11:30, and waited until ~4M for the guide to round up mules (8). Walked 4.4 Km W out of town uphill to a point at ~1200m from which the path continues down. The mules left our stuff here and we quickly set up camp in what looks like a highly disturbed primary broadleaf rainforest. Lots of palms + Melicidia, but also some very big trees. This morning, woke up somewhat late, worked on getting camp set up, then went down the path further, which passes into scrub vegetation, then pasture, and finally reaches a ranch. Past the ranch, we started searching in a clefted at 12:00. Omar found a Microtus elegans in a log and I found a Bolitoglossa refranes under a piece of bark next to a log on the edge of some secondary forest. We walked into the forest uphill from the path, which quickly turned into nice primary forest. Have very big trees w/ a relatively sparse understory. I got a B. refranes inside the hollow center of a Ceiba log on the edge of the good forest and found a Lepidophyma tuxtlae under a log