D A Gurel 1986 Journal vicinity Tapanti reserve, cmt. 12 May vegetation is very dry - no rain today. Aside from the Eleutherodactylus and Noreops (incidentally almost all we caught were FF, the males must sleep somewhere else), herps collected today included only a Noreops capito and an Eleutherodactylus pliciferus (?) collected along the pipeline up to the water. Some for the cabin (to which Kiisa went to try to adjust the flow) and a Noreops capito given to us by one of the park guards. Weather today sunny most of the day, overcast on + off but no rain. Clear sky while frog hunting at night, although lightning seen + thunder heard in distance. 13 May Fairly easy day of it today. Our plan was to check out the old road from the Tapanti bridge on the W bank of the Rio Grande. We left the cabin ca 930 (after cataloguing, etc., as usual) + walked to the bridge + then S along a good dirt rd. This rd quickly deteriorated into a track and then disappeared into the boulders + rocks of the riverbed. - We could find no trail continuing on from there. Managed to collect a Ptychoglossus under a log, a Noreops humulis in the undergrowth and a Bufo marinus juvenile along the riverbed. On the way back out to the bridge, I noticed what looked like a possible road several meters up the steep slope in the forest. I therefore climbed up to it + found that it was indeed an old, overgrown road. Kiisa + I then walked back toward the bridge, me on the old road + her in the riverbed, in order to find out where [illegible] the road started. I soon came to