Field notes, v1304
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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.