Field notes, v1600
Page 339
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Seib, R. 1985 Cataviña to Bahía de los Angeles, Baja California Norte, Mexico. 2 May Woke up to hot, dry weather. To make a long story short, we found no Pitophis in the zone, even though we spent the entire day driving back and forth between 19 and 45 mi SE El Rosario. Found a single live Masticophis flagellum 45 mi SE there, and saw another DOR. That locality is marked "Los Cuates" by road sign, and there's an immense wash with Mesquite trees, probably a rich area for snakes. We then drove to Bahía de los Angeles. Gasoline (Nova) was available, surprisingly, at the junction, and the road to the bay was repaved and quite good. We procured a bungalow at Casa Diaz for 32 dollars, which came to 5670 pesos somehow. Then I dropped Doris in the canyon 7 km W of town so she could do moonlight photography. As soon as I did so, I noticed an adult Crotalus mitchelli entering the road about 10m in front of the car! I collected it and raced ahead to the area where the road parallels a rocky hill. On the first pass I observed a live Lichanura trivirgata gracia young male adult making headway across the road! Six more passes produced a Crotalus ruber adult and Coleonyx and a Phyllodactylus. At this point the combination