Field notes, v1305
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Here, H. 1984 15 June (continued) 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