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D.Busack
-45-
1982
10 MAY amphibia we started last night. So
we returned to the pond which is just
E. of Tanger on the road to Tiris campound
and CAP MABATA. We were, once again,
successful as we caught 1 Pleurodeles
waltli (1250, ?, 1.0 g, 34+23), 1 Discoglossus
pictus (1251, o, 1.1g, 21 mm), and 7 Rana
peuxi (1252, o, 26 g, 64 mm; 1253, o, 30 g,
65 mm; 1254, o, 29 g, 64 mm; 1255, ?, 34g,
68 mm; 1256, o, 31.5 g, 64mm; 1257, o,
42 g, 77 mm; 1258, ?, 59 g, 80 mm).
11 MAY
MOROCCO: TANGER PROV.; TANGER
We returned to the area of a few
days back which was + 7 km (AIR) W.
of Tanger to collect a Tarentola
mauritonica (1259, 1.0 g, 33+32 C) and
then went to the GROTTE D'HERCULE area
for another T. mauritonica (1260, 1.3g,
38+36 C), a Coluber hippocrepis (1261, ?,
9.8 g, 310+73), and an Agama bibroni
(1262, o).
12 MAY MOROCCO, TANGER PROV., TANGER TO
CEUTA and return to SPAIN, Algiers.
We took the coastal road across
to Ceuta and stopped at KSAR-ES-SERHIR
for an hour to look around. From here,
we collected a Psammodromus ALGIRUS (1263,o,
36 g, 53+129 C) and a baby TARENTOLA MAURITANICA