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Hauken,
James
1975
Journal
Mexico trip : Cd.Valles -> Puerto [illegible] Santa Rosa
6 May
0700 Aus
(Kent)
in the golf course. Near the main house we came
upon a grassy drained swimming pool with
dundant leaf litter along the border between
sides and floor, and several other piles
in toward the middle. One Ctenosaura
was found alive inside the pool; It was caught
and found to be extremely shiny, presumably
having had fallen into the pool and been
unable to escape. No other lizards were found
by raking thru the litter. The only other
lizards seen were a
found by Alley Groer on the leaf of an elephant
ears bush (characterized by long, broad, thin, dropping
leaves, hence the resemblance to elephant ear)
outside the hotel grounds near the road. In
addition, I saw a Sceloporus variabilis on
the stone boundary fence alongside the road
but was unable to collect it.
Continuing Son 6 May thru 85 we stopped
at two additional localities the first
a few km. further S to examine a stand
of elephant-ear bushes, and the second
a spring fed stream further on. No lizards
were found at either. The second locality
looked particularly promising with
many streamsides trees with bromeliads,