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Here, H.
1984
15 June
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The AC lab sidewalk, Michael Fogden watched a
young dwartodes cerdova eat a small rodent.
It took 2 minutes to swallow the lizard to
the base of the tail, 5 minutes to completely ingest
it. When handled, the snake gives off a very
foul cloacal discharge. Dwartodes: head width 7.4
mm; tail 125 mm; SV 5/13 mm; 6.5 g.
Prey was swallowed
head-first, a Norops linifurus: SV 9 mm, head width
3.4 mm, 0.15 g.
16 June
With Dave Hardy, walked out CCC to Southwest
Trail, then up West Boundary Trail and back in
on the Carrizo Experimental Site. At 0846 h,
right at the 600 m sign on SSO, we saw two
large, turquoise, funnarrow eggs at the
base of a big tree, between the buttresses.
at 1006 h by the 250 m sign on CES, I
walked over a young adult (size, pattern)
Mastigodryas melanolemus without seeing
or disturbing it. The snake was frozen in
a crawling posture at the edge of a
hollow log abutting the trail. The
snake was on the trail, head up and
pointing at the log. Would have been a
good place from which to ambush a
foraging Ameiva festiva. The snake
thrashed and bit hanging on tenaciously,
when I seized it. At 1925 h Anne Baker