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Greene, H.
1980
20 April
Batrochaps (disgorge by HWG 253 Diadophis) 1.0 g (head
slightly digeste d) 46+24+5 mm
Charina bottae - 43.4g, 4/0+63 (contains 9.1g Sceloporus remains)
Lampropeltis getulus (Skaggs Springs) -15.2 g, 3/6+45 g
Diadophis (disgorge ontia) - 11.0g, 360+79
Contia (large of 2 disgorge by Diadophis , art. is digeste d) - 4.7 g
Addendum: opened two of the adult C. viridis
HWG 886 wt. 393.5 g before opening, anterior in
the gut was a rodent remains, head first,
that weight (wet) 41.6 g. Second
rodent remains (hair, skull) is posterior
and weights 24.5 g. So, totalis = 327.4 g
HWG 885 wt 612.0g after removal of rodent
remains that were swallowed head-first.
# 900+ 65
NB: Lizards and rodents were very abundant at
Skaggs Springs - we saw many Microtus californicus
HWG 884 - killed 1830 hr 21 April 1980, kept cold
& not fed since capture. 893+76
542.5 g-19.1g of head-first rodent remains
= 523.4 g for snake.
NB: Both of the large male C. viridis had
a cheesy substance in the salee of their
hemipenes.