Field notes, v1731
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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.