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Heem, H.
1980
28 November 7 Km S. Motupe, Cerrada Vieja, Tarataque Prov., Peru
arrived here x 0915, already hot & sunny. As we
walked up to the dead cows at the S. base of
the Cerro I spooked a ? Dicodon guttulatum
which Mark missed (killed and preserved at
1330). Saw 6-8 other Dicodon, all in open
sand among boulders initially, though
they moved through thickets when
chased. They are very fast! Saw one
large one chase a less bright smaller
one x 30m, including 2-3 turns. Saw
numerous Tropidurus, including an
immature T. occipitalis on a bresquite
out in the flats where we parked. At 0945
Mark saw a much larger (x 2 ft), black
or gray & yellow spotted lizard, and I
subsequently heard it (?) twice near
the mouth of a burrow. As we
approached this area at 1045 I saw
a movement in a pile of cactus below the
boulders and there it was - an average
adult Callopistes flavipunctatus. It
crawled a meter up to a ledge
under a boulder, turned, out-
stretched, and paused about 10 sec.
then moved up the slope, out of
sight, toward the previous burrow.