to buy some bottles in the market at Banillas last night, when I spied some baby bottles, plastic, unbreakable, tall and narrow, with tight fitting tops, and the nipple comes without any holes here so it's perfect, plus they're not too expensive ($3.50). So I bought three and today 2 more, and all the salamanders go perfectly well into three of them. The only potential difficulty is if the formalin wrecks the rubber of the nipple, but I think time is on my side for that. Anyway, about 4:30 one of the missionary's workers, a gardener, showed up with a big beautiful flat black bolitoglossine sal, with brown eyes. Its feet are fully webbed, and it is nearly 5" long and very active when handled. It came from beneath a stone in the missionary's yard, next to the house apparently. I wonder if there is a second, marked species, I presume there is and intend to find it. Sept. 10 '74 - Caught the three am. bus up to El Guetzal, waited for dawn and looked around. The woods above the town, what's left of them, are girded clean of frogs, so there is little promising habitat. I moved down the road checking the woods from time to time. The woods are aspen and oak I think