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Greene, H.
1984
4 August (continued)
The only lizard we caught was an adult P Sceloporus undulatus on a boulder; she seemed to match well enough the background colors, but might not be any darker than normal individuals from elsewhere.
Las Vegas, San Miguel Co., New Mexico
Stopped here to camp just outside of town at Stone Lake State Park. Very good meal at Johnny's Mexican restaurant, then to a movie (Conman The Destroyer). We had been told park gates closed at 2000 and raced back up only a minute or two to spare, only to find them locked. Just as we'd laid a board over the one-way spit gate spikes to drive over them, the park official came up, very disgusted, and let us in. Then found that a large family group had either ignored our tent or overlooked it! On the drive to here we'd seen numerous raptors thus far, including prairie falcons, ferruginous and red-tailed hawks, and at least one eagle (on a telephone post). Also a Vulpes vulpes out in the middle of grassland in Okelahoma (DOR).
5 August "Point of Melpais," 20 mi S. of Grants on Hwy 117, Cibola Co., New Mexico.
We reached here in mid-afternoon, a site Claudia read about in a paper by Hooper on melanism in mammals on lava fields. This is an