two mins to be found, but for over an hour I turned endless banana trash and peeled dead leaf leaves and found nothing, I found two men working and neither knew what a salamander was, so I gave up. Under one banana leaf I saw a large "6" lizard which darted away, but looked like an alligator lizard. The elevation at Santa Cruz Barillas is stated to be > 5,600 ft., but on the sign as you enter town, but on my topo map appears to be between 1600 and 1900m closer to 1600 but still well below 5600 ft., probably close to 5000. I worked in the afternoon repacking my specimens (170 of them) into my new carrier. At first I thought the 1q. square plastic formalin bottle would do, but the bag all jumbled and I realized that they might get damaged that way, so I repacked them the way Renan packs snakes, wrapped in bundles in newspaper, and then doused with formalin and put in a plastic bag. But bags are compressible and the animals could be damaged, plus the newspaper disintegrates, plus the bags break and drip formalin. So I decided to find some tall narrow bottles to use, although I realized that bottles can break, and may leak around the cap, especially when second hand, so, I was about