Field notes, v4228
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Ronto, Sean 2013 Journal Ejido Constitucion, Sierra Espinoza del Diablo, Chiripio, Mexico Aug. 15 We spent nearly all day preparing specimens; didn't finish w/ all of them. After dinner, waited for the rain to calm down, then went out to search from 21:30-23:30; Hector Gayetano joined us. I immediately got 5 B. rubescens on palm leaves. Omar got an adult male [illegible] w/ a red-orange dowels. Between the 3 of them, they got 4 more B. rubescens, 1a C. Mlei + a Graugaster (that looks a little different under for pads). Jorge found 2 B. platylectus climbing on vegetation, including a big adult. I was confused about these at first; there is a record from El Oaxte but we're at the edge of their distribution here. It began to rain extremely hard and we decided to return to camp. Aug. 16 We spent the morning and part of the afternoon preparing animals. At 18:00, walked downhill past ranch on path to a more distant ranch. Had rained hard for ~2 hrs earlier and we had waited for it to clear up; was cool and cloudy when we left. Omar found a Graugaster 'Leki' in a caftal on the way down, and I got another at night on the way back. Below the caftal, around 1000m, the forest changes to true lowland rainforest w/ enormous buttressed trees and canopy understory dominated by palm (Astrocadium mexicanum). We passed a nice stream and arrived at a cleared area w/ tons of logs, where we searched until dark (19:50). I found an Ectonistula metatimpanus on a Heliconia leaf on the edge of the forest and a Rhana by the stream (Jorge Omar got another Rhana). On the cleared area, I got a