J.A. Gurd 1987 Journal Volcán Cacao, Prov. Guanacaste, Costa Rica 19 August And thick undergrowth in many places - largely a 3 ft high species of bamboo. Many parts of the trail climb over + along branches well off the ground + many parts go through thickets of the bamboo mentioned above. The forest where the Nototriton were collected was [illegible] of trees ca. 20 feet tall, very heavily covered with thick moss. There were few bromeliads - only some very small ones (full of water, as were all the bromeliads in the area, probably therefore poor for lizards). Little understory - mostly mossy ground + fallen logs. Returned To Casa Mango ca. 1100, return drive ca. 1½ hours. We pulled moss + looked in bromeliads on both the upward + downward journey + found 1 Eleutherodactylus, says in moss ca. 3 ft off the ground at 1315 m elev. Also saw a couple of small Eleutherodactylus on the ground (poliferns/bransfidi?) but missed them. To celebrate finding Nototriton, we took a rather extended siesta this afternoon, then went to the laboratory ca. 330 + took photos, tissue + preserved specimens. This took until 500 when we had supper (8th straight meal of rice + beans). We then finished preserving specimens + CF wrote a few field notes. Then at about 700-730 we went out to the area just above Casa Mango on the trail to Casa Friends to look for frogs - found 4 Hylophorbus in low vegetation (<2 ft up), but nowhere near water + 1 heard several Eleutherodactylus diaeterna-like calls, but could find more of them. Back to camp + bed ca. 8:30. Weather windy, but less so than last couple of days, intermittent rain all day. Periods of heavy rain with thunder in mid- forenoon