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Zweif
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Mar. 4, '75.
Sonoma C., Calif.
I found 15 Aneides flavipunctatus and
one Aneides lugubris. Three small Aneides
found beneath bark on a fallen oak log
was probably A. lugubris, although at
the time they were not distinguished from
juveniles A. flavipunctatus. The temperature
beneath one A. flavipunctatus found was
11.2° C.
A sceloporus found beneath a board had a
body temperature of 11.8° C. The liquid was
telegraphic of movement.
One of the skinks was beneath a board,
and could move only very slowly. The
other was seen at the edge of a rock under
which it attempted to hide. Its body tem-
p perature was 16.2° C. One Diadophis was
under the rock under which the skink
tried to hide, the other Diadophis under a
rock about two feet away.
I saw only 9 Batrachoseps at this locality.
Several Triturus viridarius were found at
the edge of the stream. Others were seen
crossing the road in the rain, both
in mid- and late afternoon.