Hauken, James 1975 Journal Pension Chiriqui, El Valle de Anton Coclé Province, Panama 26 August road. The forest was quite mature with an almost complete canopy and dense understory of palms, vines, and low bushes, but I followed a path leading up the hillside, waterfalls, rolling logs were abundant but contained no salamanders, I did uncover a small gecko (P80) inside one rotten log 1'2"x1'2"x15', and a small snake (P89) inside another 1'x1'x8', both at 780 m. elev. Temp. inside the latter log was 20.5°C. I worked this forest for ~1 hour then returned to my car ~1 km down the road, stopping to examine several banana plants for slugs, and also taking another foot path through mature forest to the stream right near my car. No other logs were seen. 27 August 8AM Yesterday afternoon I visited the area above and to the N of the crater known as La Mesa. It consists of rolling countryside at an elevation of ~800 m. As far as I could tell it consists of rolling countryside at an elevation of 850-950 m. There formerly was a coffee finca along the road up from El Valle, but apparently the south was