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Zoeifel
Aug 12, 1951/15
Egg notes mammate
These turned out to be gacal eggs.
Yesterday a vivo Heloderma was
carried in by a proud paisno. It
laid three egge and later gave me
twelve more via caesarian. The
eggs measure 31 x 24 mm and are
either sharply pointed on one end while
being almost flat on the other. We are
trying to incubate some and have
preserved a few others.
Our first Coluber bilineatus was
purchased today, along with another
large Coluber striolatus. The C. striolatus
is a much heavier bodied beast than would
be a similar sized C. flagellum. Also the
grey ground color is quite distinctive; I have
never seen at the same color on C. flagellum.
We had been bothered for the last couple
days by an increasingly bad odor in our
room. Ken blamed it on the trash box, I
thought there was a dead toad and Reeder was
non committal. Finally Bill came up with
a sack containing a dead house cat. He
had set the gruesome thing down next the
stove and forgotten it. In complete
disbelief, he uttered the classic statement
"do you think this could be it"? A
deathless line.