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JOURNAL
19 june 4.3mi. W.N.W. Tamazulapam, Oaxaca, Mexico
SSA 214 color description
white-brown middle of dark dorsal blotches - 59.d.Br.
inter- blotches = ~ 76.l.y.-[illegible] Br.
Sun ~ 11:00PM. sun. toid(RDS ) taken earlier in evening while bkb lighting.
20 june 1mi. S.E. Tamazulapam, Oaxaca, Mexico
~12:00 noon - Sm. Uta or Sceloporus taken on limestone boulder (B)
(SSA 215), color light blue-green (163.l.bG)
dorsal blotches (pointing posteriorly. Ventral-?breey
blotches (163.l.bG.), Eulor blotches blue (182.u.Blue)
Tail, ventro-lateral color = 163.l.bG. jumped from boulder to sm.rock + then to another rock when
[overcast], intermittent rain. Page got up @ 5:30AM, came out by ~7:30 AM.
approached but did not take cover, when approached. Bobbed just before being noosed. Body raised vertically from rock surface by extension of both fore third legs. Secondary bob after maximum extention then dilataion returned to flat posture on rock. I wasn't aware of any intense flattening - curious since prominent belly blotches (light blue green are present + blue gulor blotches. Bobbing may not have been representative of usual courtship pattern but merely a nervous response to my approach.
Three Sceloporus (stocky, very scary; between S. occidentalis & S. lugubris zone) were sighted