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Hanken,
James
1975
Journal
Mexico trip - Brownsville area
28 April with a thorn scrub forest intermixed with intergerated
1/100 ha clearings of low (1-1 1/2' high) dense ground cover
(cont'd) and streamside vegetation of high reeds and
grasses. Several Hemidactylus gularis were seen
in the cleared areas and along the edge of the
forest. Sam Sweet caught two, and the
Greer's caught four. In addition, Sam
found one Eumeces brevilineatus below a
fallen railroad tie, and shot a
Sceloporus olivaceus from an exposed fallen
log.
2100 hrs After lunch Allen called Alice Landauer
at the MVZ in Berkeley to check on possible
arrangements for our finally getting into
Mexico. She indicated that she sent
the license plates to us in Brownsville to
Sanborn's Mexican Car Insurance. Hopefully
they will arrive tomorrow or the next and then
we will set out.
Later in the afternoon we drove out Texas
route 77 towards Port Isabel. At a point
we stopped to look for lizards. The vegetation was
a low scrub & brush grass plain less than
a mile from the Gulf Coast. Several
Opuntia's and yuccas were interspersed among