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Seib, R.
1983
La Paz to Mira Flores, and return, Baja California Sur, Mulege.
11 May caught several Dabo punctatus under rocks near the gardens in town. The juveniles are extremely pretty here with large patches of red anteriorly. At dark we drove twice back and forth along the road to the dam looking for a black kingsnake. Saw nothing. As soon as we entered the main highway, though, I caught a large adult female Lampropeltis getulus. It has the normal pattern and is colored brown and cream. I'm surprised to get a normal kingsnake here because last time I got the black one, albeit on the dirt road, closer to the mountains. I wonder if the black phase is a polymorphism. Very soon after, we caught a live Lichanura trivirgata, but it appeared injured and was dead by the time we reached the hotel. Picked up a couple of Chilomeniscus stramineos and saw some smashed (Rotulus ruber) (2). On the rocks approaching San Antonio picked up another, [illegible] alive, hit by a car — Lichanura trivirgata and a Trimorphodon. Then picked up yet another Trimorphodon in the rocky area north of El Triunfo. During these cold nights the rocky areas are basically the only