J.A. Good 1987 Journal Ubein Cacao, Prov. Guanacaste, Costa Rica 20 August Up, as usual, for breakfast at 600. Blowing a gale this morning. Strong wind + rain — we spent the early part of the morning making an enlarged version of the topo map of the area around here and writing a few notes. Ca. 9:30 we walked down the pasture below (Casa Mingo (west)) turning loops in hopes of finding a snake or two — found none. We walked down to the base of the hill to the west of Casa Mingo (to the divide between the Quebrada Pedagol + Quebrada Floreita drainages), then down to an abandoned shelter on the Pedagol side we could see from the divide — our plan was to make our way up through the woods from there back to Casa Mingo. This proved impossible due to a steep ravine in our way, so we were forced to hack our way through the brush at the edge of the woods back up to the pasture W of the casa. We managed to get a tiny Hydla rufifurculis on a leaf at the edge of the forest near the abandoned shelter, so our excursion (rather more extensive than originally planned) was not at total loss. What the frog was doing out in the daytime I don't know. Back to Casa Mingo ca 1100 + waited for lunch. Spent the afternoon doing laundry, etc. Immediately after Supper (ca. 530) we walked down the trail toward Fonce (Hendold) + out to the frog pond in the pasture S of the forest (ca. 980m elev.), where we waited until the sun went down. Then collected 8 Rana "pipiens", 1 Bufo marinus, 1 Pleypalennus pustulosus + a band of microhydrid tadpoles — the latter very abundant. The pond is very shallow — no more than a foot deep at its deepest. See DCC field note, for details on frogs collected (see also catalogue). On the way back from this pond (ca. 730) we stopped + collected for a while along the stream just inside the woods, (the