Hanken, James 1976 Journal Hotel Primavera, Oaxaca, Est. Oaxaca, Mexico 18 July This AM Martin Julie Feder, Dave Wake, Jim Lynch, Doug Eakins, and myself attempted to get to Asuncion Mixtepec in the Sierra de los Cuatro Venados, an important locality for Pseudoeurycea and Thorius visited by Charles Bogert. Driving S on Mex Hwy 131 out of Oaxaca we turned W on to a dirt road leaving from the main highway just S of a bridge a few km of the town of Val de Flores. We proceeded only a few km when we came to a river crossing which we decided not to try as buses and trucks were having trouble crossing the swollen stream. It hasn't rained in 3 days and yet passage is still restricted at this point: obviously early in the dry season would be a better time to try this route. We returned to the main highway and decided to travel NW of Oaxaca on Mex Hwy 190 and visit another of Bogert's localities, Tejocotes. We worked a local The highway here has climbed steeply out of the Oaxaca valley to elevations just under 8000' before the road drops down again to the NW. The wood habitat at this point is more of the usual pine-oak situation, much of it being second growth as one of the main livelihoods in this region