E. Hosice 1982 Journal Tilaran to Liberia, Guanacaste Prov, Costa Rica July, cont. were killed + preserved now. The rest can await karyotyping in a few days. Saw a roadkill Philander about 5 km. SW of Tilarán. We continued NE along Hwy 1 after returning to Cañas via Hwy 19. Arrived at intersection w/rd to Liberia sometime in the early afternoon, ~1400. Sunny, hot humid day. They are preparing for some kind of festival in Liberia - the independence day of Guanacaste, when it broke away from Nicaragua and joined Costa Rica. Found a roadkill Sciurus variegatoides along road earlier in day, (near Rio Villa Vieja). Skull was crushed, so it wasn't collected. A roadkill Tamandua(7) was found (2km NE(by rd) of the intersection w/ the road leading to Liberia. Phil collected the skull- we decided the area right around Liberia was sort of crowded and as we were going to trap in the secondary growth for Lions, we might as well just go to Playa del Coco and collect a sample from the coast (see the beach, etc., at the same time.) El Coco is a small tourist resort on Bahia de Papagayo. Duke rented us a room in the hotel there for $280 (~$4.50). We discovered that ~1/2 of the Heteromy's had died en route due to heat generated by the transmission of the N, so we had to prep. the specimens before we