D.A. Good 1987 Journal 8 August Vicinity Ubaán Poás, Prov. Alajuela, Costa Rica El Angel where we looked for salamanders again - found none. Then back toward Cantal Valley, collecting a few things, including 2 Oedipina in the paso (just E& S) between Poás + Barba. Then back to San José. See Catalogue for species collected. 9 August Vicinity Cerro de la Muerte, Prov. Cartago / San José, Costa Rica To Cerro de la Muerte today to look for Bolitoglossa. sulpalmata + Oedipina. We left San José ca. 8:30 + got to our first collecting site (22.7 km SE El Empalme Jet.) ca. 10:00. Bolitoglossa were abundant - we collected 75 + 2 egg clutches. We released 15, then drove back toward El Empalme stopping at various sites (see catalogue) to look for more animals. We found several Mesopis montricula + more B. sulpalmata, the latter of which we did not collect, except for 7 for Catfolk to take to LSU for their collection. The most interesting site was a decreased sale woodland (just stumps + logs) at 19.6 km SE El Empalme. Here we found 3 Bolitoglossa cernevis + 2 small black salamanders fairly similar to juvenile B. sulpalmata except for 2 things: 1) The color was fairly distinctive - almost solid black including the throat (B. sulpalmata usually has a pale throat) and 2) when collected, both specimens "pretended" to be dead - No other B. sulpalmata did this. These in concert suggest that these are almost certainly not sulpalmata, DBW thinks that they may be juvenile B. nigrovens - a very rare animal. We found no Oedipina in the vicinity of El Empalme, although we found some very likely patches of habitat (see DBW notes). Back to San José ca. 4:00 PM - spent rest of afternoon cataloguing.