D.A. GOREL 1987 Journal Monteverde to Liberia, Costa Rica 16 August. Spent the morning today preserving + tissueing animals - finished ca 2:00PM - we then drove down to the Pan Am Hwy + to Cañas, giving a ride to Susan Lynch, one of the fellow guests at the Pension Quetzal. She needed to catch a bus to San José. Then on to Liberia where we spent the night in a ritzy motel south of town. No new specimens collected. Liberia to Volcán Cacao, Prov. Guanacaste, Costa Rica 17 August. Left Liberia ca 8:30 + drove to Santa Rosa Natural Park where we stopped in briefly to see if there were any messages or last-minute instructions. There were none according to the only person there at the time - Carlos de la Rosa. We then drove up to Finca Harold where we arrived ca 10:00 + waited about 20 minutes for Mingo + his wife to arrive with the horses to take our equipment up to Casa Mingo (Jung's station at 1100m on Volcán Cacao). Mingo, CF+I then walked up to Casa Mingo (Mingo with the horses, (CF+I on foot behind) while DBW took Mingo's wife down to their house in Quebrada Grande + then returned to San José, as he had to go back to Berkeley on 18 August. CF+I arrived at Casa Mingo ca 1200 + had lunch. We then unpacked our equipment in the laboratory + spent most of the afternoon relaxing. I went out for about ½ hr or so late afternoon but found nothing except beetles, which we are collecting for Kenny, one of the guests at Pension Quetzal. After supper, CF+I went out for an hour or so at night but found no beetles - only a sleeping thrush which I caught, looked at + released. The forest around Casa Mingo is