Field notes, v4228
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Ronto, Dear 2011 Journal June 4 Chimatetz, Sierra de Chucua, Quiche, Guatemala Spent all of June 1 + most of June 2 dealing w/ export permits; drove to Santa Cruz del Quiche in the evening. The museum truck was having problems climbing hills- no power. Yesterday, talked to Josue Nasquez, in the municipalidad of Zacualpa, who we met on our last visit. Tried to go w/ him to Chimatetz, where Carlos+cl had collected salamanders, but the truck couldn't make it up the hill. Hopped back, found a guy w/ a truck, looked all gear + drove his full + an empty truck to Chimatetz. It rained hard in afternoon + we were unsure exactly where good forest was, so we stayed in the school (last classes were today- no kids for a week). Went out at night after rain ended + walked along road for ~1km but saw nothing- bad habitat, road cuts too near w/ no cracks. This morning, two guides named Manuel took us to a really nice oak forest at 04:30 to set up bird nets+ mammal traps. I found 2 Bolitoglossa andrei on the ground + on a log at 04:50; the forest was wet from yesterday's rain. This population has orange-pink blotches on its sides + ventral and white specks and should correspond to Campbell's B. arissinctorum. The forest has very big, old oak trees with enormous and numerous brachyblads, scattered pine trees, and a fairly open understory + thick leaf litter. We set up most of the bird nets along paths bordering secondary, brushy vegetation + bushes just above the new road to Pasaje (sp.?); this is a few hundred meters from where Carlos+cl stopped in March. cl helped set up bird nets for a few hours while Ana ducan + Alejandro Nicolle set mammal traps; they found a juvenile B. cuhuanatana + a dead B. morio in a fallen branch. The dead B. morio decayed rapidly + cl didn't collect it. Jerome+ Rodolfo spent,