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14 - I've found what I suppose is
Bolitoglossa morio in the forest above Chi-
chave, it turns out that Chichivae is a factory
where statuary is made, apparently there IS a
special type of stone there, and they blasted
several times today. I thought it was a
staircase factory because "calera" sounded like
"escalera" to me. The animals were found in
the mixed pine and oak woods at the top of
the ridge behind the factory in stumps and logs
I beleive of both tree species, also one individual
was found beneath a fallen bromeliad. Schmidt
describes morio as having white spots, sometimes
fused into stripes and tinged with yellow. By no
stretch of the imagination could the markings on
today's specimens be considered white or yellow.
These vary from all do have tiny white flecks
on the venter which extend onto the lower sides
in some cases, and the feet, but these are not
the dominant marking and never enlarge. On
some the largest light markings are small irregular
(174-175) grey to grey-brown patches on the lower side, but there
are so insignificant that at first, before close inspection
I considered some of the animals pure black-brown. On
others there are more dramatic large patches, sometimes