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Herrn, H.
1980
30 may one was under a small lava rock prospect
(cont.) ~ 10 cm above sand, out on the lava flow.
after supper, four cars hunted the blacktop
road from Newberry Springs to Anchoy. Got
several Chionactus, 1 Phyllodictylus, ?/0 C. cerastes,
2 Arizona elegans, 1 Dipsosaurus, and 4-5
Coleonyx. The chionactus have yellow interspaces
that are fringed w/ orange or rust color. The
one found crawling on sand in the lava at
5:56 1830 hr was purplish gray w/ a faint reddish
middorsal area.
31/may walked along the creosote flats, up into the
lava flow and back to camp from
~0830 - 1/30 hr. Saw numerous lizards:
Phrynosoma platyphinos (1 just was grey gray-
black all over), Uta, Dipsosaurus, Gymnodophorus
(several traveling in pairs), Urosaurus gracilis,
Sauromalus, Grotaphytus ficirostris (a
pair, ? w/ orange spots, both very melanistic)
and Callisaurus. One student saw a Gopherus
on the lava flow. After lunch we had
demonstrations on thermal and exercise biology
led by Paul Ticht (C. tigris was run to
exhaustion in 14 sec.!). Then went to Jeff
Kaufmann's apartment in Newberry Springs for
showers. At about 1600 we walked from
our campsite w/ to Jeff's Ursa study