Field notes, v1600
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Seib, R. 1985 Nopala to Isla San Marcos, Baja California Sur, Mexico 16 May put my lantern down I saw a baby Eridiphus creeping away at my feet. I quickly grabbed it, noting the enormous, bulging eyes, so three-dimensional, which bulged out from every angle [illegible] from which the head could be viewed. Davis' Lichanura was unusually chocolate brown, the lateral stripes comprising seven scale rows, as opposed to 5 rows as in the box from our first trip here. Also, the beige patches seemed to be quite a creamy yellow, very unusual. I had not walked 10 meters away when I noticed a baby Phyllorhynchus at my feet. Thus, 4 snakes in 15 min. We made a mistake then, by walking up into the canyon where Gkonyx scitulus are common but snakes are not. We thus lost 1/2 hr. of prime snake activity in the mouth of the canyon. We got 7 male scitulus, and I caught another juvenile C. ruber above the canyon. Returned to the beach. At 2400 I caught an adult Lichanura near camp, the same yellow and chocolate as the one Doris caught. I walked up the mouth of the canyon again and found a huge adult Eridiphus crossing