Afaneca, 4800', Def't. Almacheffan, El Salvador April 18, 1942 These animals crawl per annum to feed on in- festical contents. Don Guillermo agreed to furnish me with a native guide who would take me to the best places on on the Volcan. April 19, 1942 My guide turned out to be a boy of about 14. He seemed to know the trails quite well. We went up the N W slope of the Volcan to the summit. Al- though there is a dense forest on this slope of the Volcan, including many large old trees, the ground is extre- mely dry underfoot. The trail was at times sunk deep in soft, powdery soil. The undergrowth, though dense, lacked fern growth, and there were remarkably few epiphytes in the trees. At one turn of the trail, the track of some small snake was seen in the loose dust un- derfoot. At the summit of the slope the original cover had been entirely stripped, and there were several corn-fields. Most of the summit was taken up by a large cleared area which served as a nursery for young coffee plants, which were afterwards re- moved to the fincas below when they have reached a certain stage in growth. From the summit I could not see more than 10 or 12 scattered cloud forest oaks remaining. The canyons were all stripped of the original growth to a point about one third of the way down the mountain, and a dense shrub and