4 25/ Woke at seven, bought food at the market and drove to Sta. Maria de Jessís (6,773'elev) A(2800) We parked the car in the plaza and walked in. Walked nearly to the crater (3760 meters) and back down (up 9:30 am - 2:30 pm, down 2:30pm - 5:30 pm). No bromeliads seen above village, nor tree ferns at all. Rained most of the trip, and high up the earth was quite moist but no salamanders were found despite repeated digging at tree bases, in leaf litter, under moss, along roadcut banks etc, as well as dis- manthling many (8 or 10) decomposing logs, and peeling bark from standing deadwood (both of last mostly done in high ecosystem above 3,050 meters of occasional pines and thick lush bunch grass). However on the trip back down we came upon a small viper in the process of eating some sort of Thamnophis, or trying to. We separated them and bagged them, the garter snake seeing very healthy he had been gripped near the tail. We determined to pickled the young crotalid and keep the garter for at least one day to see the venom's effect. We had no trouble buying a needle and