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Transcription
Gleene, H.
1980
3 December (continued)
(Trouble finding road, got stuck,
dug out w/ no problems) found the
camp of the Condor Project, and found
Carla Christensen and Jared Hoffman.
Carla had worked on Del Solar's ranch
near Almos, and when we showed her the
collopistes she remembered seeing these
lizards there. Jared, incidentally, had
told me the correct colors of Micrurus
ischedius and I'm sure that's what
he saw; his observation was at 1100AM
on an overcast day in the last week
of October. The site he showed me was
open sand, near a tree. After leaving
them, as I was driving E towards
the junction of the roads to Sechura
and Tarbajeque, I looked toward
the sea and saw a condor almost overhead
-close enough, I could see the red
head and white under wings. As
soon as we pulled over and piled
out, it moved seaward and out
of sight. Arrived Chilago 1830
w/ an almost empty gas tank.
(NB: Our collopistes had a palpable
stomach mass when caught, so
probably had fed that morning).