Field notes, v1518
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P. PEARSON 1951-1952 Liolaeemus (cont'd) 3 I dead Flecturo. always composed themselves on close to their rock were fully exposed, almost at angle to sun's rays. April 20 Big & appeared by q-rock between 7:45 and 7:55a; 7:58 ran 5 feet to back on dead grass, some jumping. 8:00 fly took off west to me, probably its first flight of the day. 8:01 & came 30 ft. toward me, more jumping (push-ups). 8:10 & onto rock. 8:28 larger & appeared from down-gulch and chased; at 8:20 still flying at his tail as they ran. 8:40 a & walks up gulch to one of the normal grass berches 5 ft. from q burrow. When approached he walked on toward q rock but not into burrow, tip of his tail rustling. At 10:20 fast tethered w/d 2ft. from q rock. 10:28 saw molly-tailed & approach, jumping, duck on q rock, then at 10:30 attack repeatedly. This & lives under a rock about 20 ft. from q rock 5 km. E. Lago Drake April 22 At 6:55 a.m. encountered a large ♂; rectal 19°, substrate 5° (sand), air 23°F. Temp. at 7:05 under a bigged rock (but no bigged) was 4½°; at about 8:00 set up to take movies of molly-tailed ♂ (#3829). Tethered a ♂ outside his burrow and another outside burrow of ♀. the former approached me, then passed me to my left. Just after passing me another bigged dashed from up behind me and disappeared behind a sand & were "inspecting", finally settled in a copulatory position; the ♂ with a firm bite on side of q neck. I held this position for 15 minutes without a wriggle while I took movies from 15 feet. Finally q wriggled + broke loose, they rolled side by (for about 1 minute), then q dashed off behind Flectures. ♂ then stood up higher, did his dance while ♀ sat q patient. Then q dashed back but ♂, and ran off again (see movies). Cought her in a hole under Flectures - lots of dry Flectures stuff, old tunic tunnel. ♂ then backed home and fought with 2 catters in front of his burrow. April 23 Caccereberg 15, 200ft. At 7:30 a.m. encountered a large dark ♀ on dead grass with rectal temp. 23½°; air 34°F. Took photos of ♂& ♀ from Lago Drake to show variation: ♂ above, ♀ below. Also 2 pictures to show color change with temperatures of 38.8° = wet picture rectal temp. 9°C); second 37½°. In full sun at 2:40 p.m. a small-medium rock-breaking ♂ and ♂ had rectal 33° and a 100mm.♂ 34° April 24 Tethered 3 bigged out in seen at 7:40. Their temp was 1°C, their sizes 54mm. ♂, 70mm ♀, 93mm ♂. At 8:15 their temps were 31°, 27°, +19° respectively. air temp at this time 31°. At 8:35 rectal 28°, 31°, 26½° respect. At 9:20 28°, 29½°, 31° respect. At 12:20 the small one 34°, medium 33°. Pete stepped on the big one at the 9:20 reading and it acted stupid or "twitched" like after. Shot a large ♀ at 9:05 with rectal 32°-33° April 25 Cought big ♂ at 7:45 with rectal 13°; young ♂ at 8:25 31°; large ♂ 9:45 34°, larger 10:20 37°; med. ♀ 10:30 34°. The Caccereberg pp the frogs or more scale -likes than those at Twentyseven, and have bigger eggs. The young ones seem bigger.