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Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
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Arizona elegans occidentalis
June 3 13.37 mi E. Shivermore (by Road), Corral Hollow, Alameda Co., Calif. - 10:02 PM. A large adult Arizona elegans occidentalis (39") was collected lying still on the south side of Corral Hollow Road. It was pointed in a northerly direction, temp. 82°F (copied from Gene Hippmann's Note book).
Total length 39", tail . Vertebral region orangish(1), browner(2) laterally, yellowish(3) on lower sides; borders of most scales yellowish(3); venter pale creamey.(4) Dorsal pattern of 65 body +19 tail spots, brown(5) in color, vaguely bordered with blackish-brown(6), 1½ scales long x 7 scales wide at midbody; a lateral series of small spots about 4 half scales in size alternating with the dorsal blotches, and small bluish spots about 3 half scales in size on the 3rd scale row below the dorsal spots; head orangish(7), a brown prefrontal par, and a long. streak on parietal sutures; two elongate dorsolateral nape blotches. side of head paler(8) with some orange spotting on temporals, loreal region, & nape; a blackish(9) bar from eye to angle of jaw and one below eye; venter immaculate; eye as below:
left eye