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S. D. BUSACK
-54-
1982
30 MAY "CONT'D"
two more PODARCIS PERSPICILLATA on equally steep walls (1333,♀, 4.6g, 62+62R,
2 yellow follicle L, 2 yellow follicle R;
1334,♀, 2.8 g, 54+72 R, 2 yellow L, 1 R).
6.9 km S. El KSIBA MUNICIPAL
CAMPGROUND, 1540 m, got 2 more P.
perspicillata (1335,♂, 4.6g, 58+77R;
1336, 1.8 g, 43+63R) were collected.
7.1 km S. El ksiba municp. comp.
we found one LACERTA LEPIDA beneath
a rock (1337,♀, 8.1g, 68+142C) and
a P. hispanica (1338,♂, 2.9g, 49+96 C)
was taken from a rock pile where it had
been sunning on a rock.
31 MAY
MOROCCO: OUKAIMEDEN, 2650 m.
We drove today through some
rather unspectacular country between
the Middle Atlas and the High Atlas.
We were unimpressed with most of
the journey until we left MARRAKECH and could begin to see the
High Atlas in the foreground. The
last 20 km is really spectacular as one
drives among the canyon walls between
and through the clouds. When you
reach OUKAIMEDEN, you are in a
large meadow which has a domed
spring at the N. end and is totally