AT HAMVAR© dOIUL,I3GE2 
Oaotbridge:* Massachusetts 
Your only gamble will be how heavy the rains are this 
particular season. The chances are that you will be seriously 
handicapped in getting about on both the Atlantic d the Pacific 
lowlands'but it would be hard luck if you could not get about in 
the altos where the rainfall is,aof course, very much less. 
Unfortunately, however, it does come in th n form of cloudbursts 
which wash out one or another stretch of the mountain roads which, 
needless to say, are not prepared with the promptitude which we 
would expect in cur o ,_ n native land. In August 1330, for instance 
it was impossible for me to get to Coban and the highlands of 
Alta Vera Paz because.the heavy rains had destroyed the road, 
necessitating a long and arduous mule trip through many miles of 
trails deeo in mud. 
Here’s hoping that you go, that you have a lovely time 
and that you get at least one more specimen of Xenotriccus. 
Sincerely yours, 
Diet?ted by not read. 
