Field notes, v1306

Greene, Harry W., 1945-
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Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley
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H. Greene 1985-1989 Catalogue #1484-1993 Journal 1985 Calif: Contra Costa, San Bernardino Cos. Arizona: Pima, Cochise Cos. 1986 Calif: San Bernardino, Siskiyou Cos. 1987 Costa Rica Calif: Contra Costa Co. Arizona: Pima, Cochise Cos. Costa Rica 1988 Costa Rica Calif: Mendocino Co. Arizona: Cochise Co. 1989 Costa Rica Calif: Contra Costa Co. Arizona: Cochise Co. Costa Rica Arizona: Cochise Co.
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Hoene, H. 1985 Catalogue 15 January Africa no further data. 1484 Atractaspis microlepidota purchased as juvenile in 1974; 1985 preserved Hwy 25, 2.6 mi SE Jct. Hwy 146 to Pimades National Monument, San Benito Co., California 1485 Lan-propellis gelulus AOR after dark, Coll. D.B. Wake / June 1979 + 2.0 mi S of FSR 1050 (1/4 mi E. Hutton Guard Campground) on FSR 1060, NW 1/4, SEW 1/4 - I Sect 27, T 48N, R 11W, Siskiyou Co., California 1486 Lan-propellis spata Coll. unknown, 18 April 1984, gift from O.S.U. 9 March S. side of Box Spring Mtns., Riverside Co., California 1487 Lichanura lividgatta active at 1259hr 435 g 10 March Miramar Rd. at I 805, San Diego, San Diego Co., California 1488 Lan-propellis setulus under board 1435 hr 22 March Strawberry Canyon, Berkeley Alameda Co., California 1489 Crotalus viridis 13.0g, sceloporus (preg) 11.9g before preservation 18 April ~5 mi E. Newbery Spring on National Trails Hwy San Bernardino Co., California 1490 Crotalus cerastes AOR 0008hr 80 g Riogah Lava Flow, San Bernardino Co., California 1491 Crotalus mitchelli (stomach content only) 1306 H preg = Nestore HF 875+60mm 434g clipped / st verted 1492 Dizona elegans, 0.8 mi E of RR, 2/100 hr AOR 19 April Riogah Lava Flow, San Bernardino Co., California 1493 Crotalus mitchelli 1/1 mi W of RR, old DOR at 1921 hr. 1494 Dizona elegans 1.2 mi W of RR, fresh DOR at 1932 hr. 21 April Riogah Lava Flow San Bernardino Co., California AOR at 1930hr 1495 Dizona elegans 0.7mi S. Natl Trails Hwy on Riograh Catty Rd. 30 April Tesla Rd near Jct with Mires Rd, Alameda Co., California 1496 Crotalus viridis DOR Coll. P. Kelly
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Theres, H. 1985 3 may Conal Hollow Rd. at Rad. Lab., San Joaquin Co., California 1497 Lanpropeltis setulus AOR/DOR 2053 hr 20 April ≈6 mi. SW Piogah Crater (8.9 mi S. Natl. Trails Hwy on powerline Rd.), San Bernardino Co., California 1498 Xantusia vigilis under yucca 1499 Xantusia vigilis under yucca 1500 Lichanura trivirgata DOR Coll, B.M. McGorty 19 may National Trails Hwy at Piogah Lava Flow, San Bernardino Co., California 1501 Phyllodryas decurtatus DOR between RR & Crater Rd. 1502 Crotalus cerastes 498+137 mm, 180 g, AOR 2215 hr (snake released) speomophilus H F ) Between RR & Crater Rd 17 may Natl Trails Hwy at W. Edge of Piogah Lava Flow, San Bernardino Co., California 1503 Arizona elegans AOR snake released, 570+88, 58 g, Dipodomyx H F 24 may Piogah Lava Flow, San Bernardino Co., California 1504 Vulpes macrotus DOR 2125 hr, 6.9 mi W. RR 1505 Phyllodryas decurtatus DOR 1506 Chionactis occipitalis AOR 2119 hr 2.0 mi W of RR 9.5 g 273+45 1507 Chionactis occipitalis AOR 2131 hr 1.9 mi W of RR 7.5 g 3.5 mi E. Newbery Spring, San Bernardino Co., California →1505 Phyllodryas decurtatus AOR 2157 hr 35 g 380+66 mm 25 may Piogah Lava Flow, San Bernardino Co., California 1508 Chionactis occipitalis AOR 2113 hr, 0.1 mi E of Crater Rd. 249+45 mm 10.2 g 1509 Chionactis occipitalis AOR 2134 hr, 1.3 mi W of RR 266+54 mm 10.2 g 1510 Phyllodryas decurtatus AOR 2126 hr, 1.9 mi W of RR 294+49 mm 18.5 g 1511 Phyllodryas decurtatus AOR 2134 hr, 1.0 mi E of Crater Rd 266+45 mm 12.2 g 1512 Chionactis occipitalis AOR 2142 hr, 1.4 mi W of RR 250+47 mm 10 g 1513 Chionactis occipitalis AOR 2245 hr, 9.1 mi W of RR 246+47 mm 7.68
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Greene, H. 1985 25 May Piogah Lava Flow, San Bernardino Co., California 1514 Chionactis occipitalis AOR 2259 hr, 0.9 mi W of RR 255+57mm 9g 26 May Piogah Lava Flow, San Bernardino Co., California 1515 Crotalus cerastes AOR 2118hr, Nall Trails at Ciote Rd, 450+32mm prey (38) Newberry Mountain, 0.7 mi E. Newberry Spring on Nattural Trails Hwy , San Bernardino Co., California 1516 Crotalus mitchelli JDR 2220hr 27 May Piogah Lava Flow, San Bernardino Co., California 1517 Chionactis occipitalis AOR 2035hr, 0.3 mi W of RR 253+55mm, 8g 1518 Phyllorhynchus decurtatus AOR 2065hr, 1.6 mi W of RR 375+66 mm, 29g 1519 Arizona elegans AOR 2125hr, 4.0 mi W. of RR 380+53mm 16.5g 28 May Piogah Lava Flow, San Bernardino Co., California 1520 Chionactis occipitalis active on flow before sunset, 1900hr 29 May Piogah Lava Flow, San Bernardino Co., California yellow of faint name? 1521 Chionactis occipitalis AOR 2019hr 0.4 mi W of RR 256+50mm 8.2g 408+41 mm 31 g 1522 Phyllorhynchus decurtatus AOR JD. Ciote Rd & Nall Trails Hwy 2043hr yellow w/ faint orange 1523 Chionactis occipitalis AOR 2121hr 0.4 mi W of RR 260+57mm 8.5g gravid (?) 1524 Chionactis occipitalis AOR 2142hr 0.6mi N. Nall Trail on Ciote Rd. 1525 Arizona elegans AOR 2209hr 1.4 mi W. RR 570+86 70g (-prey) 30 May 22.9 mi E. Judlow on Hwy 66, San Bernardino Co., California 1526 Crotalus cerastes AOR 2048hr 370+36mm 45g 4.2 mi E. Judlow on Hwy 66 San Bernardino Co., California 1527 Crotalus cerastes AOR 2208 hr 305+17g 23.8g 31 May Piogah Lava Flow San Bernardino Co., California 1528 Chionactis occipitalis AOR 2039 hr 1.4 mi W. of RR 278+62mm 13g
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Reene, H. 1985 1 June Riograh Java Flow San Bernardino Co., California 222+394? mm 6.4g 1529 Chionactis occipitalis AOR 2036 hr, 0.7 mi N. Natl. Trails on Catal Rd. 1530 Crotalus cerastes AOR 2049 hr, 0.1 mi W. of RR 299+39mm 26.5g 1531 Chionactis occipitalis AOR 2052 hr, 0.2 mi W. of RR 260+54mm 8g 21 June N. end of Eagle Lake 4.5-5 Km (airline) NW of Spalding Tract, Jassen Co., California 1532 Crotalus viridis AOR 2131 hr 1533 Crotalus viridis AOR 2142 hr 23 June N. end of Eagle Lake, 4.5-5 km (airline) NW of Spalding Tract, Lassen Co., California 1534 Scaphiopus intermontanus 18 June UC Botanical Gardens, Berkeley, Alameda Co., California 1535 Crotalus viridis 12 June Pisqah Lava Flow, San Bernardino Co., California 1536 Rhinocleilus lecontei AOR ≈ midnight at Min Gate on Cattle Rd., released. Coll. 865+25 mm, 105g, HW11-2mm, HL 19.7 mm C.Luke 30 July 1.2 mi N. Masama Rd on Trico Rd., Pima Co., Arizona 1537 Crotalus cerastes AOR/DOR 2359 hr 31 July 4.4 mi W. of Camino del Oeste on Helio Pass Rd, Tucson Mtns Pima Co., Arizona 1538 Rhinocleilus lecontei fresh DOR 2020 hr 525+53+? mm 67g 5.2 mi S. of Mile Wide Rd on Sandario Rd., Pima Co., Arizona 1539 Lar propellitis selulus AOR 22-35 hr, heavy rain ≈140+140mm ♂ 520g 0.1 mi from A.S. Desert Museum on Kinney Rd., Pima Co., Arizona 1540 Piticiplis melanoleucus AOR/DOR 2336 hr 880+118mm 280g 1 August 1.4 mi. N. of Mile Wide Rd on Sandario Rd., Pima Co., Arizona 1541 Crotalus atrox AOR/DOR 2128 hr 630+46 mm 195g 4.7 mi S. of Mile Wide Rd on Sandario Rd., Pima Co., Arizona 1542 Rhinocleilus lecontei DOR 2146 hr
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Beere, H. 1985 2 August 0.1 mi. N. Vail, Pima Co., Arizona 1543 Crotalus scutulatus AOR 2157 hr. el. ~3300' 635+38 mm /145g 3 August 12 mi. S. Stateline Rd on U.S. 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1544 Thamnophis marcianus DOR 19 29 hr ~1/5 mi. S. Stateline Rd on U.S. 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1545 Thamnophis marcianus DOR ~~30~~ ~~/5/45 hr 20.7 mi. S. Stateline Rd. on U.S. 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1546 Crotalus atrox AOR/DOR 2030 hr 16 mi S. Stateline Rd. on U.S. ~~80~~ 1547 Thamnophis marcianus DOR 2/156 hr 4 August E. Slope of Cave Creek Canyon, above Cita Spring, Chiricahua Mtns Cochise Co., Arizona 1548 Crotalus lopedius ~~/500h~~ 25.3g ~~/320+32 mm~~ 4.9 mi. S. of Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 1549 Crotalus scutulatus AOR 2042 hr 3.5 mi. S. of Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 1550 Crotalus atrox AOR/DOR 2048 hr 2.3 mi S. Arinos on Hwy 338, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 1551 Crotalus viridis DOR 2048 hr Col. B. Torbelin 26 mi. S. of Portal Rd. on U.S. 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1552 Diadophis punctatus DOR col. B. Torbelin 19 July 1985 Cave Creek Ranch, Chiricahua Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona 1553 Diadophis punctatus under rock Col. M. Beckwith 19 July 1985 Cave Creek Canyon, Chiricahua Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona ~~/5000'~~ 1554 Trimorphodon biscutatus AOR just above Stewart Campground ~~25 April/88~~ Col. B. Torbelin 5 August East Turkey Creek, Chiricahua Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona 1555 Crotalus milosus
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June, H. 1985 5 August Cave Creek Canyon, Chiricahua Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona 1556 Elgaria kingii Coll. V.D. Roth, near S.W.R.S. 1557 Elaphe tricapitis AOR 2018 hr, 3.8 mi N. Portal 1558 Hypsiglena torquata DOR 2110 hr, 4.9 mi N. Portal 4 1/2 + 80 mm 32 g 1559 Crotalus molossus DOR x 2130 hr, Coll. B.Torberlin 9/6 + 96 mm 430 g 1.5 mi. S. Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 1560 Micruroides euryxanthus AOR 2045 hr (see 1562) 10 mi N. of Portal Rd. on U.S. 80, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 1561 Crotalus scutulatus DOR 2024 hr 820 + 60 mm 440 g Coll. B.Torberlin 1.5 mi. S. Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 1562 Septophylops regurgitated by HWE 1560, 256 + 10 mm 4 g 12 August 24th St Greenway, Phoenix, Maricopa Co., Arizona 290 + 150 mm 470 g 1563 Heloderma suspectum rec'd from Dept. Game & Fish, coll. 7 August 1985 W. Bajada of Tucson Mtns., 0.9 mi E. Kinney Rd on Gates Pass Rd., Pima Co., Arizona 1564 Pitophis melanoleucus AOR/DOR 1929 hr 724 + 1/5 mm 132 g E. Bajada of Tucson Mtns., 0.9 mi W. Camino de Oeste on Gates Pass Rd., Pima Co., Arizona 1565 Trimorphodon biscutatus DOR 2111 hr 532 + 1/5 mm 38 g W. Bajada of Tucson Mtns., 1.4 mi E. Sandario Rd on Mile Wide Rd., Pima Co., Arizona 1566 Crotalus liguus AOR 2136 hr 34.3 g W. Bajada of Tucson Mtns., 1.2 mi E. Sandario Rd on Mile Wide Rd., Pima Co., Arizona 1567 Rhinocelilus lecontei AOR 2139 hr 252 + 43 mm 7 g W. Bajada of Tucson Mtns., 1.7 mi E. Sandario Rd on Mile Wide Rd., Pima Co., Arizona 1568 Pitophis melanoleucus DOR 2354 hr 885 + 130 mm 190 g 14 August W. Bajada of Tucson Mtns., 1.5 mi E. Sandario Rd on Mile Wide Rd., Pima Co., Arizona 1569 Trimorphodon biscutatus AOR 2018 hr 150 g 6 September Piccal Lava Flow, San Bernardino Co., California 1570 Arizona elegans AOR 2205, 2.0 mi W. of RR
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Greene, H. 1985 7 September, Riojar huya Flow, San Bernardino Co., California 1571 Iadmus arzonraia AOR 1572 Djora elegans AOR 2005 hr, 0.2 mi W of RR 1573 Trinophden biscutatus DOR 2011 hr, 1.1 mi E of RR 1574 Chionactis occipitalis AOR 2043 hr, x 50m E of RR 11 September, SW Bajada of Tucson Mtns., Pima Co., Arizona 1575 Crotalus fignio found on grounds of Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum 24 September S. Bajada of Tucson Mtns., Pima Co., Arizona 1576 Crotalus figrio brought in to Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum 8 July Berkeley, Alameda Co., California 1577 Crotalus viridis Dwight-Derby Track, x 1200 hr
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Greene, H. 1984 1 Jan No data, long-term capture (gift from E. Ely) 1578 Crotalus cerastes ♀ tissue, skin, skeleton 25 April Kelbaker Rd., E. side of Granite Mtns., San Bernardino Co., California 1579 Crotalus cerastes DOR x 1400 h, 5.3 mi. S. Cattleguard at crest 0.9 mi. S. Kelbo on Kelbaker Rd., San Bernardino Co., California 1580 Chiroactis occipitalis AOR 1905 hz 26 April Donner Camp, N.E. side of Granite Mtns., San Bernardino Co., California 1581 Crotalus mitchelli 785 + 67 mm, 440 g - Killed 26 May 1986 805+60mm 415g 1582 Sylvilagus - palp ed from Crotalus mitchelli (snake released, 1000+72 mm, 991 g) 1583 Dipodomys - palp ed from Masticophis flagellum (snake released, 1205 +400, 474g) 27.6 mi S. Baker on Kelbaker Rd., San Bernardino Co., California 1584 Pituophis melanoleucus DOR x 1700 hz 27 April Granite Core, N. side Granite Mtns., San Bernardino Co., California 1585 Hypsiglena taquata 15g 7 May Between Castle Rock and Alameda Co. line on Corral Hollow Rd. San Joaquin Co., California 1586 Masticophis flagellum middlorki DOR before dusk 1587 Crotalus viridis DOR before dusk 1588 Crotalus viridis DOR before dusk 28 May Piosal Lava Flow, San Bernardino Co., California 1589 Chiroactis occipitalis AOR 2048, 0.4 mi. W. of RR tracks 215+40mm, 4.3g 1590 Chiroactis occipitalis AOR 2133 hz, 1.4 mi. W. of RR tracks, 265+54mm, 9.7g 1591 Chiroactis occipitalis AOR 2155 hz, 1.2 mi. W. of RR tracks, 251+54 mm, 9.1g 1592 Chiroactis occipitalis AOR 2201 hz, 0.1 mi. W. RR tracks, 212+41mm, 4.7g
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Freese, H. 1986 29 May Pisgah Lava Flow, San Bernardino Co., California 1593 Chionactis occipitalis AOR 2024 hr, 1.5 mi W. RR, 230+46 mm, 6.5 g 1594 Chionactis occipitalis AOR 2100 hr, 1.7 mi W RR, 186+32 mm, 3.0 g 1595 Phryloscynus decrustatus AOR 2118 hr, 2.3 mi W. Ludlow 374+34 mm 28.2 g 1596 small bird found dead on lava, midday 30 May 0.4 mi E., Alameda Co. Jim on Cond Hollow Rd., San Joaquin Co., California 1597 Cololus viridis AOR dusk 31 May Pisgah Lava Flow San Bernardino Co., California 1598 Chionactis occipitalis AOR 0.7 mi W. RR, Coll. C. Luke 230+42?, 5.5 g 1599 Chionactis occipitalis AOR 2.0 mi W. RR, Coll. C. Luke, 286+50 mm, 11.2 g 23 May Hastings Natural History Reservation, Carmel Valley Monterey Co., California /600 Cololus viridis Coll. P. H. Kelly 1130 hr 8 24+45 mm, 56.5 g 6 June Hastings Natural History Reservation, Carmel Valley Monterey Co., California Pres. 26 July 1986, sent to China /601 Cololus viridis Coll. P. Hooge 1015 hr 790g 10/5+67 mm J 2 July Pisgah Lava Flow, San Bernardino Co., California /602 Cololus cerastes AOR 2144 hr, 1.8 mi. W. RR tracks, palped Dipodomys 3 July 2.5 mi N. Kelso on Kellbaker Rd., San Bernardino Co., California /603 Cololus mitchelli active in rocks at 1957 hr 14g 319+21 mm 21.1 mi N. Kelso on Kellbaker Rd., San Bernardino Co., California /604 Cololus cerastes AOR 2046 hr 149 g 523+46 mm 12.8 mi N. Kelso on Kellbaker Rd., San Bernardino Co., California /605 Drizma elegans AOR 2134 hr 46.5 g 530+87 mm 12.2 mi N. Kelso on Kellbaker Rd., San Bernardino Co., California /606 Cololus scutulatus AOR 2138 hr. 47g 432+33 mm 4 July 17.7 mi. N. Kelso m Kellbaker Rd., San Bernardino Co., California /607 Piturphix melanolencus AOR 2117 hr 62 g 599+106
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Arzene, H. 1986 4 July 4.7 mi. N. Kelso on Kelloher Rd., San Bernardino Co., California 1608 Augura elegans AOR 2139 hr 46.8g 585+83mm Stone (by Harris Spring Rd.) 27 July Parice Gap Well, 273 mi. N. Battle, Siskiyou Co., California 1609 Ornystoma macrodactylum 1610 Ornystoma macrodactylum 1611 Ornystoma macrodactylum 1612 Ornystoma macrodactylum 1613 Ornystoma macrodactylum 1614 Ornystoma macrodactylum 1615 Ornystoma macrodactylum 1616 Ornystoma macrodactylum 1617 Ornystoma macrodactylum 1618 Ornystoma macrodactylum 1619 Ornystoma macrodactylum 2.8 mi N. Battle (Aug 89) on Harris Spring Rd., Siskiyou Co., California 1620 Charina bottae AOR 2202hr 11.0 mi N. Battle (Aug 89) on Harris Spring Rd., Siskiyou Co., California 1621 Bufo boreas AOR 2235 hr 28 July Grasshopper Flat, 24.1 mi. N. Battle on Harris Spring Rd., Siskiyou Co., California 1622 Phrynosoma douglasii Vorking 0945hr 1623 Phrynosoma douglasii active 0955 hr 29 July N. end of Eagle Joke, ~4.5-5 km (air) N.W. Spalding Tract, Lassen Co., California 1624 Pituophis melandaeus active 1019hr 1625 Coluber constrictor under board 1029hr 1626 Coluber constrictor active 1102 hr 1627 Crotalus viridis active ~1130hr 100g 54/1+40 mm 1628 Sceloporus gracilius
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Freese, H. 1986 29 July N. end of Eagle Joke, ~4.5-5 km (air) NW Spalding Tract, Lassen Co., California 1629 Sceloporus graciosus 1630 Sceloporus graciosus 1631 Sceloporus graciosus 1632 Sceloporus graciosus 1633 Sceloporus graciosus 1634 Sceloporus graciosus 1635 Sceloporus graciosus 3 August Texas, no other data, captive in Dallas Aquarium ≥15 years 1636 Macrolamys leptinechi received from E. D. Brodie Jr. 29 May Gual Viejo Canyon, 4.2 mi NE Jamesburg, Monterey Co., California 1637 Crotalus viridis coll. M. Stanback, found injured 15 August Grasshopper Flat, 24.1 mi N. Battle on Harris Spring Rd., Siskiyou Co., California 1638 Phrynosoma douglassii born in captivity, 1074 from RCS 12040, 14 Aug 86 1639 Phrynosoma douglassii born in captivity, 1074 from HWG 1622, 8 Aug 86 1640 Phrynosoma douglassii born in captivity, 1072 from RCS 12041, 13 Aug 86 1641 Phrynosoma douglassii born in captivity, 1073 from HWG 1623, 6 Aug 86
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Fleere, H. 1987 19 May ≈1 mi N. California City on Newalia Rd, Kern Co., California 1642 Masticophis flagellum fresh DOR at 1000 hr ≈5 mi N. California City, Kern Co., California 1643 Phrynosoma platyhirus active at ≈1100 hr 22 g Pisgah Zava Flow, San Bernardino Co., California 1644 Masticophis flagellum active at ≈1600 hr coll. C. Luke 280 g 7.9 mi W. Judlow, San Bernardino Co., California 1645 Chionactis occipitalis DOR ≈2100 hr orange secondary (carbon yellow) 3.2 mi W. Judlow, San Bernardino Co., California 1646 Arizona elegans DOR ≈2100 hr 20 May 1.3 mi W. of Vulcan Mine Providence Mtns., San Bernardino Co., California 1647 Crotaphytus insularis bostei 1420 hr 31 g 98+207 mm 0.4 mi E. of Vulcan Mine, Providence Mtns., San Bernardino Co., California 1648 Pituophis melanoleucus active 1637 hr 1.0 mi E. of Vulcan Mine, Providence Mtns., San Bernardino Mtns, California 1649 Xantusia vigilis under yucca log ≈3 mi N. Hwy 66 on Kelbaker Rd, San Bernardino Co., California 1650 Coleoryx variegatus AOR 1651 Coleoryx varegolos AOR 1652 Coleoryx varegatulos HOK Hole in the Wall San Bernardino Co., California 1653 Sauromalus obesus under small caprock el. ≈1200 m 12 May Coral Hollow Rd. at Site 300, San Joaquin Co., California 1654 Elgaria multicarinata AOR at dusk (≈2000 hr) S., Arizona
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Flower, H. 1987 19 May ~1 mi N. California City on Neudria Rd., Kern Co., California 1642 Masticophis flagellum fresh DOR at 1000 hr ~5 mi N. California City, Kern Co., California 1643 Phrynosoma platyhirus active at ~1100 hr 22g Piogch 7ara Flow, San Bernardino Co., California 1644 Masticophis flagellum active at ~1600 hr coll. C. Lutes 280g 7.9 mi W. Judlow, San Bernardino Co., California 1645 Cheiroactis occipitalis DOR ~2100 hr orange secondary (carbon yellow) 3.2 mi W. Judlow, San Bernardino Co., California 1646 Arizona elegans DOR x 2100 hr 20 May 1/3 mi W. of Vulcan Mine Providence Mtns., San Bernardino Co., California 1647 Crotaphytus insularis (Bosley) 420 hr 31g 98+207 mm 0.4 mi E. of Vulcan Mine, Providence Mtns., San Bernardino Co., California 1648 Pituophis melanotaceus active 1637 hr 1.0 mi E. of Vulcan Mine, Providence Mtns., San Bernardino Mtno, California 1649 Xantusia vigilis under yucca log ~3 mi. N. Hwy 66 on Kelbaker Rd., San Bernardino Co., California 1650 Geonymx variegatus HCR 1651 Coleomps variegatus AOR 1652 Coleomyx variegatus HCR Hole in the Wall, San Bernardino C., California 1653 Sauromalus obasus under small caprock el. ~1200 m 12 May Coral Hollow Rd. at Site 300, San Joaquin Co., California 1654 Elgaria multicarinata AOR at dusk (2000 hr)
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Tucson, AZ. 1987 31 August 3.2 mi S. Mile Wide Rd. on Sandario Rd., Pima Co., Arizona 1655 Bufo cognatus AOR 1936 hr 2.7 mi. S. Mile Wide Rd. on Sandario Rd., Pima Co., Arizona 1656 Crotalus cerastes AOR 1948 hr 0.5 mi. E. Mile Wide Rd. on Kinney Rd., Pima Co., Arizona 1657 Crotalus atrox AOR 2012 hr 645+55 mm, 139 g (+prey) (1659) 0.6 mi E. Desert Museum on Kinney Rd., Pima Co., Arizona 1658 Crotalus trivigis AOR/DOR 2045 hr. 565+53 mm, 180 g 0.5 mi E., Mile Wide Rd. on Kinney Rd., Pima Co., Arizona 1659 Cnemidophorus sonorae 13 g (prey of 1657) 1 September Mile Wide Rd between Kinney Rd and Sandario Rd, Pima Co., Arizona 1660 Crotalus atrox AOR 1918 hr 945+81 mm, 555 g 1661 Crotalus atrox DOR 1920 hr 860+53 mm, 245 g Sandario Rd. at jct. San Joaquin Rd., Pima Co., Arizona 1662 Lampropeltis getulus AOR/DOR 1946 hr 540+90 mm, 48 g 0.5 mi SE of Mile Wide Rd. on San Joaquin Rd., Pima Co., Arizona 1663 Bufo alvarius AOR/DOR 1951 hr SV 150 mm, 345 g 2 September 3.6 mi N. Carino Loma Alta on Old Spanish Trail, Pima Co., Arizona 1664 Rhinocleis secentie DOR x 2/100 hr 3 September 2.8 mi NW Hwy 80 on State Line Rd to Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 1665 Terrapene ornata AOR 1800 hr CL x 80 mm 153 g 21.3 mi S. State line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1666 Crotalus scutulatus AOR 1828 hr 738+51/mm 330 g 20.3 mi S. State Line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1667 Crotalus scutulatus AOR 1904 hr 693+53 mm, 217 g 21.7 mi S. State line on Hwy 80 Cochise Co., Arizona 1668 Crotalus scutulatus DOR 1909 hr
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Greene, H. 1987 3 September 22.1 mi S. State line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1669 Rhinocelilus decortei DOR 1959 hr 4 September 21.3 mi S. State line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1670 Thamnophis marcianus DOR 1912hr 1671 Thamnophis marcianus AOR 1958hr 447+110mm, 33g 20.4 mi S. State line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1672 Thamnophis marcianus AOR 1932hs 603+159mm, 79g 3.6 mi S. State line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1673 Lampopeltis getulus AOR 2027hr 5 September 24.6 mi S. State line Rd. on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1674 Terapene ornata AOR 1130 hr CL ~104mm 325g 7.1 mi S. State line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1675 Crotalus scutulatus AOR 2038hr 255+20 mm, 12g 6 September Care Creek Canyon, Portal Rd. at Care Creek Ranch, Cochise Co., Arizona 1676 Diadophis punctatus DOR 1845 coll. 3 Sept 87, R.N. Johnson 19g Care Creek Canyon, 3 mi N. Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 1677 Crotalus molossus DOR day coll. T. Moisi 7 July 1987 1678 Crotalus molossus DOR day coll. T. Moisi 7 July 1987 mi E. Portal n Portal Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1679 Phrynosoma cornutum DOR night coll. B. Torberlin 2 August 87 1680 Rhinocelilus decortei DOR night coll. B. Torberlin 2 August 1987 Rodeo, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 1681 Thamnophis marcianus DOR ~2000hr coll. B. Torberlin 12 July 1987 1682 Lampopeltis getulus DOR ~2000hs coll. B. Torberlin 12 July 1987 ~3 mi S. Ariviere on Hwy 338, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 1683 Crotalus viridis DOR ~2100hr coll. B. Torberlin 25 July 1987
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Greene, H. 1987 6 September Rodeo, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico /684 Thamnophis marcianus DOR 2000hr. coll. B. Tomberlin 12 July 1987 1 mi E. Portal on Portal Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona /685 Thamnophis cyrloopsis DOR night coll. B.Tomberlin 2 August 1987 7.6 mi. S. State Line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona /686 Crotalus scutulatus AOR/DOR 1844hr 23.7 mi S. State Line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona /687 Crotalus scutulatus DOR 1948 hr 10 September ~6 mi. E. Animas on Hwy 9, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico /688 Crotalus viridis AOR coll. B. Tomberlin 11 September 0.3 mi S. Portal on Portal Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona /689 Micruroides euryxanthus AOR 1859 hr 375 +25 mm 12.5g 0.1 mi S. Portal on Portal Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona /690 Crotalus atrox AOR/DOR 1908hr 292+23 mm 18 g 12 September Cemetery at Paradise, Cochise Co., Arizona /691 Masticophis bilineatus coll. T. Snell 6 September, 1987 10 mi N. Douglas on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona /692 Masticophis flagellum DOR coll. B.Tomberlin Aug 15, 1987 21 mi N. Douglas on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona /693 Heterodon nasicus DOR coll. B. Tomberlin August 15, 1987 4mi. E. Portal on Portal Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 2000hr /694 Salvadorana DOR coll. B.Tomberlin Sept. 10, 1987 1 mi S. Animas on Hwy 338, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico /695 Crotalus viridis DOR coll. B. Tomberlin August 6, 1987 Hwy 80 at Apache, Cochise Co., Arizona /696 Crotalus atrox DOR coll. B.Tomberlin July 24, 1987
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Giese, H. 1987 13 September 2 mi. E. Portal on Portal Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1697 Pituophis melanoleucus DOR coll. B. Tomberlin Sept. 9, 1987 1 mi. E. Portal on Portal Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1698 Arizona elegans DOR coll. B. Tomberlin September 11, 1987 Paradise, Cochise Co., Arizona 1699 Cnemidophorus coll. T. Sorell July 29, 1987 20.8 mi. S. State Line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1700 Crotalus scutulatus AOR 1846h 472+25+? 69g 21.9 mi. S. State Line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1701 Crotalus scutulatus DOR 1850h 18.8 mi S. State Line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1702 Rhinocheilus lecontei AOR 1901h2. 654+104 mm 145g 5.1 mi SE. Portal on Portal Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1703 Rhinocheilus lecontei AOR 2000h 647+114 mm 155g ~0.5 mi E. Portal on Portal Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1704 Micruroides euryxanthus AOR coll. B. Tomberlin August, 1987 Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 1705 Micruroides euryxanthus AOR coll. B. Tomberlin Sept 6, 1987
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Freese, H. 1987 1 December La Selva Biological Station, Prov. Heredia, Costa Rica 1700 Miurus allari active x 0700h 584+109, 20g 2 December La Selva Biological Station, Prov. Heredia, Costa Rica 1701 Botheops asper dead m trail x 1900h 295+48 mm , 12g [illegible] La Guaria, Puerto Viejo de Sarapiqui, Prov. Heredia, Costa Rica 1702 Emelius selateri DOR 3 December La Selva Biological Station, Prov. Heredia, Costa Rica 1703 Botheops asper active x 2130h 29 Novembe, 1987 1395+173 mm 1.1 kg 4 December La Selva Biological Station, Prov. Heredia, Costa Rica 1704 Botheops asper 1721 + 225mm, 2.15 kg 17 December La Selva Biological Station, Prov. Heredia, Costa Rica 1705 Imantodes cenchoa regurgitated by leptodactylus pentadactylus x2030h 605+291 mm 20 December La Selva Biological Station, Prov. Heredia, Costa Rica 1706 Celia clélia coll. 3 Dec. 1987, 482+101mm, 26.5g 1707 Oxyrhopus petola coll. 13 Dec 1987, 375+82 mm, 12g, 2105 h. 1708 Imantodes cenchoa coll. 14 Dec. 1987, 603+261mm, 10.5g 1709 Cerallus annulatus coll. 14 Dec. 1987, 465+92 mm, 18.5 g 1710 Imantodes inornatus coll. 14 Dec. 1987, 707+115+? mm, 36g, Ar 1711 Rhadinella decorata coll. 17 Dec. 1987, 258+50+? mm, 7g, /600 h. 1712 Botheops nasutus coll. 18 Dec 1987, 28.5 g 1713 Imantodes cenchoa coll. 18 Dec. 1987, 424+190 mm, 3.9g 1714 Imantodes inornatus coll. 19 Dec 1987, 2128 m. 1715 Hyla claeochrea coll. 19 Dec. 1987, 1.8g, regurgitated by HWG 17/4 1716 Hyla claeochrea 1717 Hyla claeochrea Regurgitated by Imantodes inornatus (not 1718 Hyla claeochrea collected, 640+241 mm, 25.7 g); three 1719 Hyla claeochrea weighed 1.8, 1.8, 2.0 g
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Aceves, H. 1987 26 December La Selva Biological Station, Prov. Heredia, Costa Rica 1720 Hyla s daeolura } regurgitated by Imantodes inornatus (not collected, 1721 Hyla s eodroa 37.3g, ?j; 2.1, 2.2q . 2255 hr. 21 December La Selva Biological Station, Prov. Heredia, Costa Rica 1722 leptodactylus pentadacty coll. 23 Dec. 1987 (night), 47.4g 1724 Xenodon n docophalus 0945 hr., 250+45 mm, 12.5 g 1725 leptodactylus pentadacty gurgitated by HWG-1724, 1.9g 29 December La Selva Biological Station, Prov. Heredia, Costa Rica 1726 Bothrops nasutus 2010 hr., 16/1+17 mm, 4.3 g/ 31 December LaGuaira Annex, La Selva Biological Station, Prov. Heredia, Costa Rica 1727 Ninia selbae coll. ~15 December 1987, B. Paniagua
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Greene, H. 1988 3 January La Selva Biological Station, Prov. Heredia, Costa Rica 1728 Leptodeira annulata coll. 2 Jan 1988, 1855h, 635+158mm, 109g 1729 Scaphiodontophis venustissimus 1312h, 217+130mm, 9g 8 January Concepción de Puriscal, Prov. San José, Costa Rica 1730 Bothrops schlegelii (gold), rec'd at D.C.P. 4 Nov. 1987 Lenhurst, Prov. Limón, Costa Rica 1731 Bothrops schlegelii (peach), rec'd at D.C.P. 8 Jan. 1988 San Ramón, Prov. Alajuela, Costa Rica 1732 Bothrops nummifer born 12 Nov. 1987 in 1733 Bothrops nummifer D.C.P. 3 February U.C. Bot. Garden, Strawberry Canyon, Berkeley, Alameda Co., California 1734 Crotalus viridis 12.5g, prey (S. occidentalis) 8g 15 March 5 mi S. Rucker Gyr Rd on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1735 Sistrurus catenatus BRT 198 1736 Crotalus cerastes AOR 20:21 PM coll. C. Luke 23 March 4 mi. S. I-40 on Kelbaker Rd., San Bernardino Co., California 1737 Salvadora herpelis AOR day coll. C. Luke 26 March Richard Field Station, Contra Costa Co., California 1738 Pituophis melanoleucus found dead in drift fence 1 April Coral Hollow Rd., Alameda Co., California 1739 Pituophis melanoleucus AOR/DOR #1730h 1740 Pituophis melanoleucus AOR/DOR #1730h 31 July 23.9 mi. SW State Line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1741 Jampropeltis gutulus AOR 20:13h 390+23+?mm 20.6g pres. August 15, 1988 22.0 mi SW State Line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1742 Crotalus scutulatus AOR 20:28h 886+29mm 37g
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Heene, H. 1988 31 July 21.6 mi SW State Line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1743 Crotalus scutulatus DOR/AOR 2044h 695+46 mm 215g 1 August 2 mi N of Portal Rd on Hwy 80, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 1744 Lampropeltis galiius DOR, no date, B. Tonberlin & T. Snell 1mi W. Portal on Portal Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1745 Salvadora grahamiae DOR 29 April (1988, B. Tonberlin 1 mi SE Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 1746 Micruroides euryxanthus dug up by backhoe 1 June 1988, T. Snell 8 mi, E. Animas on Hwy 9, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 1747 Crotalus viridis DOR 17 July 1988 B.Tonberlin, T. Snell Apache, Cochise Co., Arizona 1748 Crotalus scutulatus DOR 23 July 1987 B. Tonberlin Hwy 80 at Rodeo, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 1749 Crotalus scutulatus DOR 21 August 1987, B. Tonberlin Hwy 9 near Hwy 80, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 1750 Crotalus scutulatus DOR 17 July 1988, B.Tonberlin, T.Snell 3 mi E. Hwy 80 on Hwy 9, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 1751 Crotalus scutulatus DOR 17 July 1988, B. Tonberlin, T. Snell 1mi E. Hwy 80 on Hwy 9, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 1752 Crotalus scutulatus DOR 19 July (1988, B.Tonberlin, T. Snell Portal Rd. at State Line Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1753 Crotalus scutulatus AOR 2025h 349+25 mm 43g {incl. prey} 3 August South Fork, Care Creek Canyon, Chiricahua Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona 1754 Lampropeltis pyromelana active 1500h 100g 4 August Near Ash Spring, Chiricahua Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona 1755 Crotalus molossus ♀ 305g ≈1330h } 1756 Crotalus molossus ♂ 532g ≈1330h { found together pres Sept 5, 1996
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Heene H. 1988 August 4 ~5 mi E. Portal on Portal Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1757 Bufo debilis DOR/AOR ~2045 hr 3.4 mi E. Portal on Portal Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1758 Bufo debilis AOR 2100 hr 2.3 mi E. Portal on Portal Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1759 Thamnophis cyclopsis AOR 2106 hr. 510+182 mm 55g Care Creek Canyon, 2.8 mi W. Portal on Portal Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1760 Rana chiricahuensis AOR ~2145hr Care Creek Canyon, 1.5 mi W. Portal on Portal Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1761 Rana chiricahuensis AOR ~2145 hr August 5 2.0 mi. E. Portal on Portal Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1762 Crotalus scutulatus fresh DOR 1950 hr. August 6 0.7 mi. E. Portal on Portal Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1763 Bufo debilis AOR 2045hr August 8 12.3 mi NW Sells on Hwy 86, Pima Co., Arizona 1764 Crotalus atrox DOR/AOR 2135 hr. 8.7 mi W Sells on Hwy 86, Pima Co., Arizona 1765 Crotalus cerastes DOR 2230 hr 6.8 mi NW Sells on Hwy 86, Pima Co., Arizona 1769 Rhinocheilus lecontei AOR 2237hr 540+82 mm 75g 4.4 mi NW Sells on Hwy 86, Pima Co., Arizona 1767 Crotalus tigris AOR 2244 hr 187g 3.2 mi W. Sells on Hwy 86, Pima Co., Arizona 1768 Crotalus scutulatus DOR 2250 hr 5.9 mi E. Sells on Hwy 86, Pima Co., Arizona 1769 Bufo reliformis AOR 2309 hr
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Keene, H. 1988 August 9 2.0 mi N. Paradise on Rd. to San Simon, Cochise Co., Arizona 1770 Phrynosoma longiceps AOR/DOR 1427hr Cave Creek Canyon, Chiricahua Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona 1771 Crotalus molossus AOR ~1800hr 842+53mm 375g 1772 Crotalus molossus AOR ~1800hr 867+66mm 350g coll. G. Morker found on road together at Stewart Campnd 5.6 mi. SW State Line Rd on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1773 Pituophis melanoleucus DOR 2032 hr. 22.0 mi. SW State Line Rd. on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1774 Crotalus scutulatus AOR/DOR 2042 hr. 4.0 mi. SW Apache, Cochise Co., Arizona (collected face) 1775 Crotalus atrox AOR 2/22hr. 780+65mm 346g August 10 ~1/2 air mi. E. Barfoot Lookout, Chiricahua Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona 894+70mm 55g 1776 Crotalus molossus under rock 1135hr regurgitated 165 g cottontail ~1/2 air mi. E. Barfoot Lookout Chiricahua Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona 1777 Crotalus price ~ 368+36mm, 53g, under tin at 1225hr, released (regurgitated Sceloporus jarrovii swallowed lead fist, prey saved) 100m W. of Postal Store, Cochise Co., Arizona 1778 Phrynosoma modestum AOR 1345hr. 68+27mm 14g ~1/2 mi. E. Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 1779 Masticophis bilineatus AOR ~0900hr 925+891mm 190g coll. B. Tomberlin 20.5mi SW State Line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1780 Sistrurus catenatus DOR 1944hr 18.9 mi SW State Line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1781 Scaphiopus couchii AOR 2017hr 1.3 mi SW State Line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1782 Arizona elegans DOR 2035 hr.
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Greene, H. 1988 August 10 2.0 mi E. Postal on Postal Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1783 Crotalus molossus AOR 2059 hr 740+54 mm 150g 1.3 mi W. Postal on Postal Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1784 Scaphiopus multiplicata AOR ≈ 2115 hr August 11 3.9 mi SW Postal, Cave Creek Canyon, Chinicahua Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona 1785 Lampropeltis pyromelana DOR 1810 hr. coll. G. Merkes August 8, 1988 5.2 nd mi. SW Postal, Cave Creek Canyon, Chiricahua Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona 1786 Trimorphodon biscutatus # m rock crevice 1340 hr coll. G. Merkes August 13, 1987 19.9 mi SW State line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1787 Thamnophis maionanus AOR 1938 hr 550+49+? mm 74g 20.8 mi., SW State line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1788 Sistrurus catenatus AOR 1959 hr. 55g 22.3 mi SW State line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1789 Crotalus scutulatus AOR 2015 hr 647+47 mm 190g 22.2 mi SW State line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1790 Rhinocheilus lecontei AOR 2051 hr 538+90mm 75.5g regurgitated 10 lizard eggs, fresh wt. ≈0.4g each August 12 23.6 mi SW State line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1791 Crotalus atrox AOR 2009 hr. 760+70 mm 300g 21.3 mi SW State line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1792 Crotalus atrox AOR 2056 hr 730+57 mm 306g regurgitated mouse, swallowed head-first, 27+g August 13 Cave Creek Canyon Rd. at SWRS, Chiricahua Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona 1793 Diadophis punctatus AOR ≈1900 hr 540+/100mm, 22g regurgitated Hypsiglena coll. T. Turmezei 0.5 mi E. Hwy 80 on Hwy 9, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 1794 Crotalus scutulatus AOR 2000 hr coll. August 11, 1988, B.Tomberlin 252g
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Greene, H. 1988 August 14 Barfoot Lookout Chiricahua Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona 1795 Crotalus pricei active 0900 hr. 530+48mm, 108 g (held 24 hrs re my permit, presented to A.S.D.M.) Turkey Pen Canyon, Chiricahua Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona 1796 Crotalus lepidus TL 7 3/4", regurgitated Scelopenda head-first (snake released, stomach contents saved) coll. T. Snell 1797 Crotalus lepidus F 335+21mm, 27 g janzovi, swallowed h-f. (snake released, stomach contents saved) coll. B.Torberlin x28 air mi. N. Douglas, Cochise Co., Arizona 1798 Crotalus scutulatus DOR/402 1942 hr 600+52 mm 185 g 21.9 mi SW State Line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1799 Rhinocheilus lecontei AOR 2037 hr 685+114 mm 140 g head-first regurgitated Granulophorus 22.3 mi SW State Line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1800 Sistrurus catenatus AOR 2039 hr 21.1 mi SW State Line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1801 Crotalus scutulatus DOR 2052 hr 10-15 mi NE Douglas on Hwy 80 Cochise Co. Arizona 1802 Crotalus molossus DOR 1035+74mm, 300g swallowed head first coll. T.Snell, T.Snell regurgitated rat 1/2 mi N Granite Gap on Hwy 80, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 1803 Crotalus viridis x scutulatus DOR, coll. B.Torberlin x 10 mi NNW Douglas on Hwy 666, Cochise Co., Arizona 1804 Sistrurus catenatus DOR x 2200 hr 4mi SW Portal on Portal Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1805 Salvadora grahamiae DOR coll. B.Torberlin, T.Snell Lori. E. Portal on Portal Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1806 Arizona elegans DOR coll. B.Torberlin, T.Snell, August 13, 1988
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Aceves, H. 1988 August 15 7 mi E Hwy 80 on Hwy 9, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 1807 Notiosorex crawfordi coll. B. Tomberlin, T. Snell, August 8, 1988 1808 Phrynosoma cornutum coll. B. Tomberlin, T. Snell, 1988 Paradise Chiricahua Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona 20202- same locality 1809 shrew-Notiosorex coll. B. Tomberlin, T. Snell, May 9, 1988 ~1 mi W Portal on Care Creek Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 660+85 mm 920g 1810 Crotalus molossus DOR ~2000 coll. T. Snell August 13, 1988 ~5 mi NE Douglas on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1811 Masticophis flagellum DOR coll. H. Jaster 1270+411mm 565g ~5-15 mi NNW Douglas on Hwy 666, Cochise Co., Arizona 1812 Heterodon nasicus DOR coll. T. Snell, T. Sinclair, August 14, 1988 1813 Lampropeltis getulus DOR coll. T. Snell, T. Sinclair, August 14, 1988 1814 Thamnophis marcianus DOR coll. T. Snell, T. Sinclair, August 14, 1988 West Peak, Graham Mtns., Graham Co., Arizona 1815 Phrynosoma douglassi el. 8500' coll. T. Sinclair 1 mi N Hwy 9, 9 mi W Animas, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 1816 Phrynosoma cornutum { coll. B. Tomberlin, T. Snell 1817 Phrynosoma cornutum } August 13, 1988 Hwy 9, Between Hwy 80 and Animas, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 1818 Pituophis melanoleucus DOR coll. B. Tomberlin, T. Snell May 25, May 25, 1988 4 mi N Rodeo on Hwy 80, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico June 20, 1988 1819 Lampropeltis getulus DOR coll. B. Tomberlin, T. Snell 4 mi E Hwy 80 on Hwy 9, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 1820 Thamnophis marcianus { DOR, coll. B. Tomberlin, 1821 Thamnophis marcianus } T. Snell, 1988 Between Hwy 181 and Hwy 80 on Hwy 666, Cochise Co., Arizona 1822 Crotalus scutulatus DOR coll. T. Snell, T. Sinclair, August 14, 1988
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Greene, H. 1988 August 16 Hwy 181, 1-13 mi E. Hwy 666, Cochise Co., Arizona 1823 Crotalus scutulatus DOR coll. T. Snell, T. Sinclair 1824 Crotalus scutulatus August 14, 1988 August 17 Mile Wide Rd. at Sardario Rd., Pima Co., Arizona 1825 Mastigophis flagellum DOR/AOR 0940 hr 6400 N. Wilcot Tucson Pima Co., Arizona 1826 Heloderma suspectum rec'd from A.S.D.M., Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona coll. G. Procter July 24, 1988 1827 Tantilla yagui coll. B. Tonberlin 854 pro. August 21, 1988 June 1988 August 19 Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 1828 Crotalus atrox 336+24 mm, resuscitated ferognathus 7.0+?g, 35.6g, not saved coll. B. Tonberlin August 25 6 mi E. Torre, Valencia Co., New Mexico 1829 Sistrurus catenatus no date or collector, rec'd from Brian Smith July 1988 September 8 1/1 mi E. Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 1830 Micruroides euryxanthus AOR 1900 hr 5g 22.1 mi SW State Line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1831 Sistrurus catenatus AOR 1939 hr ♂ 281+38 mm 20.3g 0.1 mi E. Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 1832 Micruroides euryxanthus AOR 2157 hr 14.5g September 9 ~5 mi. N. Portal on Paradise Rd. Cochise Co., Arizona 1833 Diadophis punctatus AOR ~1/730 hr, coll. T. Snell 12g 1/1 mi NW Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 1834 Phrynosoma cornutum AOR 1800 hr 80g 5.3 mi E Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 1835 Rhinocheilus lecontei AOR 1912 hr 75g 0.3 mi. SW State Line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1836 Heterodon nasicus DOR 1920 hr
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Beane, H. 1988 September 9 1837 2 mi. E. Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona Crotalus atrox 400 after dark coll. B. Torberlin 1838 4 mi. E. Jktng 80 on Hwy 9, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico Tantilla nigricaps coll. B.Torberlin & T. Snell, August 3, 1988, DOR 2 mi. W. Portal on Portal Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1839 Hypsiglena torquata DOR coll. T. Snell, July 21, 1988 3 mi. W. Portal m Paradise Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1840 Phrynosoma douglasii DOR coll. T. Snell, August 6, 1988 Hwy 9 at Hwy 80, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 1841 Crotalus scutulatus DOR coll. B. Torberlin, September 10, 1988 3 mi. S. Rodeo m Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1842 Thamnophis marcianus DOR coll. B.Torberlin, T. Snell, August 3, 1988 2 mi. S. Hwy 9 on Hwy 80, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 1843 Crotalus scutulatus DOR coll. B. Torberlin, T. Snell, July 17, 1988 2 mi. W. Animas m Hwy 9, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 1844 Crotalus viridis DOR coll. B.Torberlin, T. Snell, August 4, 1988 2 mi. E. Hwy 80 on Hwy 9, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 1845 Salvadora hispidipes DOR coll. B.Torberlin, T. Snell, June 21, 1988 6 mi S. State Line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1846 larpropeltis getulus DOR coll. B.Torberlin,T.Snell, July 4, 1988 3 mi. S. Hachita on Hwy 81, Grant Co., New Mexico 1847 Crotalus viridis DOR coll. T. Snell, July 25, 1988 6 mi. W. Animas on Hwy 9, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 1848 Crotalus atrox DOR coll. B.Torberlin, T.Snell, August 1, 1988 October 11 Playa Blanca, Peninsula de Osa, Prov. Puntarenas, Costa Rica 1849 Orthogeomys underwoodi coll. D.K. Jetbureau, August 31, 1988
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Greene, H. 1988 October 14 \/2 mi E. Portal on San Simon Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1850 Thamnophis cytopsis } coll. AOR together, B.R.Torberlin, 1851 Thamropbis cystopsis } October 7, 1988 October 15 \1 mi W. Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 1852 Pituophis nelandeucus AOR /620 hr 2.8 mi W. Portal on Paradise Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1853 Crotalus molossus AOR coll. B.Torberlin, October 1, 1988 October 27 Berkeley, Alameda Co., California 1854 Crotalus viridis coll. September 12, 1978, St. Prospect & Channing St. December 7 Barro Colorado Island, Gatun Lake, Panama 1855 Polychrus gutturosus coll. J.B. Losos on a bay at 40 m, next to canopy tower, PM. December 23 2.2 mi NE Lindale on FM 2710, Smith Co., Texas 1856 Lampropeltis calligaster AOR/DOE x/330 hr
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Greene, H. 1989 January 22 200 yds. E. Hwy 580 on Grant Line Rd., Alameda Co., California 1857 Mastigophis flagellum DOR, coll. G. Beaman, grassland and rocks Wilson Botanical Garden, 5.6 km S. San Vito, 1300 m, Prov. Puntarenas, Costa Rica 1858 Lachesis muta coll. L.D. Gomez, December 1987 India no other date rec'd from San Francisco S.P.C.A. 1859 Calotes versicolor No data, contraband, rec'd from U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service /1860 Derioonia punctata April 2 W. Slope of Mt. Diablo, 100 yds. from end of Valley Vista Rd., Walnut Creek, Contra Costa Co., California /1861 Euneces gilberti coll. G. Beeman, ~1400 m. /1862 Euneces gilberti under rocks April 15 ~8mi N. I-5 on Kelbaker Rd., San Bernardino Co., California 1863 Mastigophis flagellum active in yucca at ~1740m Kelso Dunes, San Bernardino Co., California /1864 Dipsosaurus dorsalis /1865 Ura scoparia sent to Moscow Zoo /1866 Garbelia wislizeni Kelbaker Rd. between I-5 and Natl. Trails Hwy, San Bernardino Co., California 1867 Phrynosoma plethiforms AOR Pisgah Lava Flow, San Bernardino Co., California 1868 Colomys variegatus AOR sent to Moscow Zoo /1869 Colomys variegatus AOR 1870 Crotalus cerastes AOR 1871 Chionactis ocellipitalis AOR April 18 34 mi. E. Skyline Blvd, Oakland, Alameda Co., California /1872 Diadophis punctatus disgorged Ensatina eschscholtzii coll. T. Sinclair 1989-30, 408+87 mm, 20g
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Freere, H. 1989 April 23 "Rara Avis," Near Las Horquetas, Prov. Heredia Costa Rica 1873 Tylomys watsoni coll. G.C. Berman, removed from 1.85 m Lactesis muta, swallowed head-first, snake discarded. Zapaton de Puriscal, Prov. San Jose Costa Rica November 18, 1988 resuscitated bat, 17.4g 1874 Bothrops schlegeli rec'd from A. Solizano, I.C.P. TL 611mm, 63.2g Ciudad Neily, Prov. Puntarenas Costa Rica resuscitated Bufo 31.5g 1875 Leptodeira septentrionalis rec'd at I.C.P. March 25, 1988 TL 652mm, 55.5g May 3 Buckhorn Canyon, Alameda Co., California "A6 ♂" coll. G. Berman 1876 Euneces (? much scars) resuscitated by Masticophis lateralis 780+305 mm May 10 4.0 mi E. Alameda Co. Line on Coral Hollow Rd., San Joaquin Co., California 1877 Masticophis flagellum DOR x/830 m May 15 0.5 mi. S. I-70, 1.7 mi. W. McDowell Creek Rd., Geary Co., Kansas 1878 Diadophis punctatus coll. T. Sinclair 89-38, April 26, 1989 0.7 mi. S. I-70, 1.8 mi. W. McDowell Creek Rd., Geary Co., Kansas 1879 Tantilla nigriceps coll. T. Sinclair 89-39, April 26, 1989 June 6 x/1 mi E. Portal on Portal Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1880 Micrurus eurytanthus AOR/DOR 2030hr, coll. B. Torberlin June 7 2.8 mi. W. Portal on Paradise Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 505+782mm, 37g 1881 Salvadora grahamae active in shade on slope, 1726 m. June 8 Hardy's House, Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona /660+165mm, 385g 1882 rodent, swallowed head-first by Pituophis melanoleucus (released) 10 mi. E. Hwy 285 on FM 2400, Tensell Co., Texas coll. B.Torberlin, T. Snell June 2, 1989 1883 Cremidophorus DOR 1600 hr June 9 Chiricahua Jct. Rueben Canyon Rd. & Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1884 Holbrookia maculata sunning at x/100hr, 65+64 mm, 8.6g June 10 2.8 mi. W. Portal on Paradise Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1885 Crotalus molossus coll. B.Torberlin, Fall 1988, radiolabeled female
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Heene, H. 1989 June 10 Postal, Cochise Co., Arizona 1886 Seelopus jensori coll. B. Torberlin, died hibernaty on house 4 mi. E. Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 1887 Leptotyphlops coll. T. Snell, June 1, 1989, DOR Postal, Cochise Co., Arizona 1888 Leptotyphlops coll. S. Spofford, April 25, 1989 Sane Creek Canyon, Chiricahua Mtms., Cochise Co., Arizona 1889 Elaphe triaspis DOR, coll. B. Torberlin, May 15, 1989 Geronimo Trail Rd., 4 mi. E. Douglas, Cochise Co., Arizona 1890 Phrynosoma cornutum DOR, coll. B. Torberlin, May 28, 1989 Foothill Rd., 7 mi. S. San Simon, Cochise Co., Arizona 1891 Lampropeltis gelulus DOR coll. T. Snell, May 3, 1989 Vic. Antelope Pass, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 1892 Notiosorex crawfordi 1893 Notiosorex crawfordi } dead in car trap, coll. B. Torberlin 1894 Notiosorex crawfordi and T. Snell, Spring 1989 5 mi. W. Hwy 80 on Hwy 9, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 1895 Phrynosoma cornutum DOR, coll. B. Torberlin & T. Snell, Spring 1989 7 mi. W. Animas on Hwy 9, /Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 1896 Grotaphytus collaris DOR, coll. B. Torberlin, T. Snell, Spring 1989 Vic. Antelope Pass, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 1897 Crotaphytus collaris DOR, coll. B. Torberlin, T. Snell, Spring 1989 4.5 mi. E. Hwy 80 on Hwy 9, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 1898 Masticophis bilineatus DOR, coll. B. Torberlin, T. Snell, April 29, 2 mi. W. Hwy 9 on Hwy 338, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 1899 Tantilla nigriceps DOR, coll. B. Torberlin, T. Snell, May 25, 1989
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Greene, H. 1989 June 10 3.5 mi. W. Animas, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 1900 Diadophis punctatus corr. B.Torberlin, T.Snell, June 29, 1988 10 mi. W. Hatchita on Hwy 9, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 1901 Masticophilus flagellum DOR, coll. B.Torberlin, T.Snell, Spain, 1987 Hwy 9, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 1902 Lampropeltis getulus DOR coll. B.Torberlin, T.Snell, May 25, 1989 20.5 mi SW State line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1903 Phrynosoma cornutum fresh DOR at 2000hr 13.8 mi SW State line on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1904 Pituophis melanoleucus fresh DOR 2040hr July 3 Paras, Prov. San Jose, Costa Rica 1905 Scolecophis atrocinctus rec'd from A. Solozano, coll. June 25, 1989 No exact data, Costa Rica 1906 Scolecophis atrocinctus rec'd from Drst. Clodovio Picado July 11 La Selva Biological Station, Heredia Prov., Costa Rica 1907 Ninia maculata on path @1200 hr AOR/DOR 122+31 mm, 1.2g July 14 La Selva Biological Station, Heredia Prov., Costa Rica 1908 Leptophis ahaetulla asleep in tree at night, regurg. HWG 1909-1911 1909 Hyla elaeochroa ♀ 38 mm, 2.8g } 1910 Hyla elaeochroa ♂ 36 mm, 1.8g {regurgitated by HWG 1908 1911 Hyla elaeochroa ♂ 30 mm, 1.2g July 12, 1989 1912 Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri regurg. by Leptophis depressivus July 13, 1989 29 mm, 2.1g 1913 Rhotheca eurysora active @ 2050-2130hr, July 12, 1989, 437+306, 5.5g 1914 Erythrolamprus minimus active in afternoon, July 13, 1989, 364+14+?mm 20.5g 1915 Mothoca eurysora active 2058hr, tail 155 mm, 5.4 g; 425+82 mm 43g snake black & white July 21 La Selva Biological Station, Heredia Prov., Costa Rica 1916 Micrurus
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Heene, H. 1989 July 21 La Guaria de Puerto Viejo de Sarapiqui, Heredia Prov., Costa Rica 1916 Micrurus nigrocinctus killed in house July 25 La Selva Biological Station, Puerto Prov. Heredia, Costa Rica 780g 1917 Spilotes pullatus, July 16, 1989, on trail at 0852h, 1700+593mm 1918 Rhacliocara decorata July 23, 1989, 6g, 245+154mm on leaf 1.5m above ground 1919 Sibon longifasciatus coll. R. Foster, July 24, 1989, 3g, 202+90mm on trail 2050h. 995g 1920 Lachesis muta, July 7, 1989, died July 25, 1989, 1235+120mm July 26 Puerto Viejo de Sarapiqui, Prov. Heredia, Costa Rica 1921 Gymnopis multiplicatus DOR, coll. J-H. Carothers July 27 La Selva Biological Station, Prov. Heredia, Costa Rica 1150+305mm 1922 Celia celia, coll. R.Foster, July 25, 1989, after dark 490g 737+53mm 1923 Micrurus mipartitus coll. R.Foster, July 25, 1989, after dark, 79g 1924 Ophryophis petola coll. A.Mitchell, July 25, 1989, ≈2200h [lost-exposed] HNG-1929 1925 Dasypuncta punctata, coll. July 26, 1989, resuscitated by Bothrops asper 1926 Lachesis muta skeleton, July 26, 1988 July 29, 1989 TL ≈425mm 1927 Gymnopis multiplicatus active on trail in clearing 1900h, 60g SV82mm, 45g 1928 Bufo marinus killed by Leptodeira septentrionalis July 26, 1989, ≈0800h 1929 Bothrops asper coll. July 26, 1989, died July 28, 1989; 2.7 Kg, 1625+241mm August 1 Bojaran, Puntarenas Prov., Costa Rica 1930 Sibon anthracops rec'd alive from A. Solizano August 13 6.4 mi SW State Line Rd on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1931 Thamnophis marcianus AOR/DOR 1947h 520+85+?mm, 68g 10.6 mi SW State Line Rd on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1932 Crotalus sentulatus AOR/DOR 1954h. 865+74mm, 470g 2.6 mi SW State Line Rd on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1933 Lampropeltis gelulus AOR 2055h ≈18/1013 1030+160 380g
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Greene, H. 1989 August 13 3.8 mi SW Portal on Care Creek Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1934 Crotalus molossus AOR 2137h 845+44 mm 349g Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 1935 Euneces obsolitus coll. B. Torberlin ≈110+200 mm, 42g ≈1 mi E. Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 1936 Micruroides euryzonus AOR/ POR ≈2100m coll. B. Torberlin, T. Snell 1½ 356+34mm August 14 17.4 mi SW State Line Rd on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1937 Crotalus scutulatus AOR 1954h S43+48mm, 105g August 15 3 mi. E. Hwy 80m Hwy 9, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 1938 Crotalus scutulatus AOR/ POR ≈700m, coll. B. Torberlin T. Snell August 16 22.3 mi SW of State Line Rd on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1939 Crotalus scutulatus AOR 2026 h 482 +28mm 69g 11.7 mi SW of State Line Rd. on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1940 Crotalus atrox AOR 2056 h 832 +48mm 197g 0.3 mi W of Portal on Care Creek Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1941 Tantilla nigriceps AOR 2201h 196+50 mm, 3g 1.5 mi E of Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 1942 Micruroides euryanthus fresh DOR 2209 h, 382+36mm, 12.5g August 16 Rodeo, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 1943 Masticophis flagellum coll. B. Torberlin, August 13, 1989 326+100 mm, 7g 3.6 mi SW Portal on Care Creek Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1944 Masticophis bilineatus AOR 1130 h, 957+425mm, 182g 22.2 mi. SW State Line Rd. on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1945 Cnemidophorus uniparens 71+92 mm, 8.5g, 1946 Sceloporus undulatus 70+18mm, 9.1g 1947 Sceloporus undulatus 64 + 89mm, 9g 1948 Sceloporus undulatus 57 + 83 mm, 7g
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Greene, H. 1989 August 16 22.2 mi SW State Line Rd. on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1949 Crotaphytus collaris 89+160 mm, 27.1 g 1950 Crotaphytus collaris 93+164 mm, 31.2 g 1951 Phrynosoma douglasii 33+16 mm, 1.2 g 14.2 mi SW State Line Rd. on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1952 Thamnophis marcianus AOR/DOR 2123 hr 492+130 mm, 58 g 6.0 mi E. Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 1953 Tantilla nigriceps 2/49 hr, 290+62 mm, 9 g 31 mi. E. Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 1954 Masticophis bilineatus AOR x 2100 hr! coll. B. Torberlin, T. Snell 0.2 mi E. Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 1955 Trimorphodon biscutatus AOR 2206 hr 265+45 mm, 27.7 g 4.7 mi. E. Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 1956 Crotalus scutulatus AOR 2153 hr 8/4+62 mm 358 g 1/6 mi N Hwy 80 on State Line Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1957 Jampropeltis getulus AOR 2135 hr ♂ 9/55+130 mm, 268 g August 18 1.1 mi E. Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 1958 Heloderna suspectum shot by tourist who claimed it attached his dog. 3 mi N. Apache on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1959 Pituophis melanoleucus DOR, coll. T. Sinclair, July 5, 1989 2 mi S. Portal Rd on State Line Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1960 Crotalus scutulatus DOR coll. B. Torberlin, T. Snell, July 17, 1989 18 mi N. State Line Rd. on Hwy 80, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 1961 Crotalus scutulatus DOR coll. B. Torberlin, T. Snell, August 8, 1989 4 mi. S. San Simon on Foothills Rd. Cochise Co., Arizona 1962 Pituophis melanoleucus DOR coll. B. Torberlin, T. Snell, May 12, 1989
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Greer, H. 1989 August 19 Set. Rucker Canyon Rd. & Hwy 80 18.7 mi SW State Line Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1978 Sonora senilis annulata under rock , 264+51 mm 8.1 g 1979 Lampropeltis getulus under rock in mouse nest 1980 Crotalus scutulatus under rock October 19 2.2 mi W. Hwy 80 on Rucker Canyon Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1981 Crotalus atrox basking among rocks 1230 m, 190 g 23.0 mi SW State Line Rd. on Hwy 80, Cochise Co. Arizona 1982 Heterodon nasicus DOR +/-330m 16.7 mi SW State Line Rd. on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1983 Pituophis melanoleucus AOR/DOR 1348 m. J.T.Care Creek Rd. & South Fork, Chiricahua Mtns. Cochise Co., Arizona 1984 Crotalus molossus coll. B. Torberlin July 7, 1989; pres. Oct. 19, 1989 fed but not shed in captivity October 20 Chiricahua, Set. Hwy 80 & Rucker Canyon Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1985 Pituophis melanoleucus on surface of Dipodomys spectabilis mound, 1017 m. 1986 Crotaphytus collaris under rock at +/-1030m, lizard tail in throat. October 21 1.8 mi N. Hwy 80 on State Line Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1987 Heterodon nasicus AOR 1510 m. 17.7 km SW State Line Rd. on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1988 Diadophis punctatus DOR (fresh) 1536 m. Mulberry Draw 21.2 mi SW State Line Rd. on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1989 Elgaria leopzi active 1650m October 22 Cinder Mine 22.0 mi SW State Line Rd. on Hwy 80, Cochise Co., Arizona 1990 Holbrookia maculata Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 1991 Diadophis punctatus coll. B. Torberlin, July 7, 1989
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Greene, H. 1989 August 18 7 mi W. Animas on Hwy 9, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 1963 Salvadora Rodeo, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico DOR coll. B. Torberlin, T. Snell, July 7, 1989 1964 Heterodon nasicus DOR coll. B. Torberlin, T. Snell, July 13, 1989 6 mi. W. Animas on Hwy 9, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 1965 Crotalus viridis DOR coll. B. Torberlin, T. Snell, July 28, 1989 1 mi N. Portal on Foothills Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1966 Thamnophis cystopsosis DOR coll. B.Torberlin, T. Snell June 29, 1989 Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 1967 Euneces obsoletus drowned in can trap, July 29, 1989 coll. B. Torberlin, T. Snell 9 mi N. Portal on Foothills Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1968 Pituophis melandereucus DOR coll. B.Torberlin, July 12, 1989 1mi W. StateLine Rd. on Portal Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1969 Crotalus atrox DOR coll. B. Torberlin, T. Snell, August 1, 1989 Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona 1970 Harenpropeltis getulus DOR coll. B. Torberlin, T. Snell, July 5, 1989 Portal Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1971 Rhinocheilus lecontei DOR, coll. B. Torberlin, T. Snell, July 4, 1989 Cochise Co., Arizona Near jet. rds. to Buena Vista Park and Rustler Park, 8600', Chiricahua Mtns. 1972 Crotalus molossus coll. T. Snell 821 +50 mm, 402g Granite Gap, 22 mi N. StateLine Rd. on Hwy 80, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico 1973 Heloderma suspectum DOR coll. B. Torberlin, T. Snell August 19 At. Rucker Canyon Rd & Hwy 80, 18.7 mi SW State Line Rd., Cochise Co., Arizona 1974 Sceloporus undulatus under rock, 60 +13+ ? mm, 6.5g 1975 Sceloporus undulatus under rock, 74+102 mm, 11g 1976 Cremidophorus unipareo under rock, 64 +120 mm, 6g 1977 Phrynosoma douglasii active @1030hrs, 41+19 mm, 3.9g
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Greens, H. 1989 November 9 No data, perhaps Mexico, based on color pattern 1992 Crotalus willardi - rec'd from USFWS, September 18, 1989 died Nov. 1989 Sierra San Juas, 1993 Crotalus willardi - rec'd from USFWS
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H. Greene 1985-1989 Journal 1985 Calif: Contra Costa, San Bernardino Cos. Arizona: Pima, Cochise Cos.
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Greene, H. 1985 Journal 11 January Bigah Lava Flow, San Bernardino Co., California Claudia Fuke and I arrived here ~1600 yesterday after two days of working in the Los Angeles Co. Natural History Museum. Spent today walking around, taking temperatures on the lava and adjacent areas (Claudia's data), and working on an old trail she found last fall. It is ~ 2 km W of the crater, reachable by walking on a track that runs off (to the W) of the Mining Company Road to the Crater. Sunny, partly cloudy, windy and chilly at times (Claudia got a max. lava surface temperature of 26.2, shaded; rocks were warm to the touch throughout midday). Saw no reptiles but lots of scats of Sauromalus and Nestora. 22 - 23 February Pismo Regional Park, Contra Costa Co., California Took my natural history class to the Alhambra Valley Rd entrance both mornings. Beautiful days, the hottest on record since 1849. Still Taricha and Hyla in the ponds but most activity is evidently over - saw many egg masses of both, but only a few newts in amphipus. Saw 7-9 adult Clemmys marmorata basking at the uppermost lagoon in late morning both days. Also golden eagles, Sceloporus occidentalis (out basking), and a last fall's hatchling Larperpeltis getulus - under a rock and bearing a fresh wound (bird peck?) just anterior to the cloaca. 1-2 March Returned w/ my natural history class to the Bear Creek Rd entrance. Weather cool, windy, overcast to
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Greene, H. 1985 1-2 March partly cloudy. Concentrated both days on the (continued) open area on top a hill, the "old archery range." Got (on successive days) 1/3/166 Batrachoseps, 9/3 Ensatina, several Taricha, 2/0 Sceloporus, 1/2 Euneces, 1/3 Gopherus multicarinatus, and 0/2 Crotia - all under cover. 9 March S. Slopes of Box Springs Mtns., San Riverside Co., California. Arrived here approx 1/30 hr w/ Ben Dial (Chapman College) and Robert Fisher (student at UC Davis); a steep slope of large granite boulders among fairly open coastal shrub. Overcast w/ occasional sun. Saw 1-2 Uta, a few Sceloporus occidentalis, and many S. orcutti active on the ground and boulders. Found an scat of Lynx rufus.
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Keane, D. 1985 18 April Ridge Lava Flow, San Bernardino C., California Claudia Juke, Jeff Kauffman, and I arrived here (trailers) at 0100hr, having left Berkeley at 1430 yesterday. Some rain on the way down and during the night here, chilly, at times very windy. Found a skinny adult Crotalus cerastes motionless in the middle of National Trails Hwy at 0008 hr, 2.5 mi E. of Newberry Springs. Didn't expect a snake so late and cold! Overcast, cool, and windy all morning (we slept late, then parked in another level from the car, >1/2 mile away). By 1230 clouds breaking up from the west and getting warmer. I walked from then until 1345, during which there was some bright sun and occasional drizzle. At 1306 hr I found an adult Crotalus mitchelli coiled at the edge of lava and hardpan slope, S. of the trails on the S. edge of the finger that goes W and at its base. Snake turned into a hole in the lava and rattled and coiled when I hooked it out. Saw much old Sauromalus scuts and some Uta Webberi, but no active lizards. Jeff and Claudia walked out to the car - they saw 2 Uta and collected scuts of Canis, Lynx, and Vulpes. We clipped the snake's last vertebra, weighed (434 g), measured (815+60mm, ?), and palpated out a Webberi that had been swallowed head-first. After late lunch we walked from 1530-1800. I saw only Uta,
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Heene, H. 1985 18 April (continued) but Claudio found Uta, a Saurorabus, and a little Gopherus [see below too] (carapace 90 mm, 170g [after copious defecation and urination], 3 growth annuli, suggest born season of 1981). The tortoise was head-in to a cavity in lava, and several meters out onto the flow from hard pan. After dinner, we roadtripped from 1910-2000 and ~2100-2330h, including ~5 trips over the usual 2 mi stretch and one trip to Judlow for desert. At 2110h, 0.8 mi E of the PR traicho, got an HOJ juvenile Agrona elagans. Saw numerous Dipodops and a few Lepus on the road. Forgot to mention earlier that when we removed the Gopherus it elevated the posterior carapace by extending hind legs, hissed, and snapped when I poked its front legs with my finger. 19 April Sunny and windy at dawn. Saw a Uta active at 0708 h. Worked around trails 'til ~1000h, then drove out to Nall. Trails thru W. a few miles, and S for ~6 miles on a good dirt road used by Ken Noris for his transect here. Warm and sunny. We saw >=6 Saurorabus, including one huge O; 1 Chrosaurus; 1 Gorbelia (basking on a short charred log!); numerous small Callisaurus; lots of Uta, mostly F& gravid; and a few Cnemidophorus. We went ~75-100' down a mine shaft, near a fin shed in the lava ad visible from the road (Noris' "Pisoah Hilton")
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Greene, H. 1985 19 April (continued) but saw no animals. Saw a Buteo jamaicensis on the road in lava. Went to Barstow for supplies and got back to the trails ~1715 h. Intermittent winds all day, but nice. Road hunted ~1900-2115, six trips back and forth over the standard 2.1 mile stretch. Found a DOR adult Crotalus mitchelli several hours old; a small fresh DOR C. cerastes; and a fresh DOR Arizona with a rodent in its stomach; and 2 ? Coleonyx. Very strong winds in the evening (short trails hard!). 20 April High overcast and cool at dawn. Brian McCarty, Ben Diol, and Chris Austin joined us last night, and we sat around talking after breakfast til 10. Walking out, we found a small ? Phrynosoma platyrhinos (~35ch) active in the road and a small adult ? Callisaurus stationary under a creoste bush. Went to Kelso Dunes, walked for one hour, and saw no lizards. Cold and windy, overcast, all day and some rain as we drove back to Piesah ~1530h. Road hunted ~30 miles on Natl Trails Hwy from ~1915-2030 and saw no snakes, a few Dipodomys, and one large Canis latrans. Earlier in the day at the trails we saw a Falco sparverius and a possible Prairie Falcon. By 2200 hr sky clear, very cold and windy, and we are hoping for better (= hotter) weather tomorrow!
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Greene, H. 1985 21 April Sunny and windy. Released the Crotalus mitchelli (see 18April) at capture site, took photographs, ≈1000hr. It took refuge in the same crech by which originally captured. Went to Jeff's Ura study site, on N. edge of the flow - saw only Crepidophorus, Uta, an adult ♂ Callisaurus, and Chris saw one Ura. Not warm yet. Went to the Noristransact/power line road and drove to crest ridge ≈ 8 mile S. of National Trails Hwy. Saw Uta and Sauromalus near the Piszah Hilton. Beyond lava, in creozote, found a smallish Gopherus at ≈1500hr beside the road and active, w/≈10 growth annuli. ♂(?) has several grooves and chips anteriorly and posteriorly on one side of the carapace and some nichs on the plastron - coyote, lava, or what? Stopped in an area of sparse yucca and claudia ad I each got a very large Tantuscia vizilis. Jeff got a ♀ Sauromalus at the highest place we stopped. We back to his Ura site on N. edge of the flow, but saw none. While we hunted lizards, Claudia checked out Brian McCarthy's report and found large quantities of raptor pellets and droppings under the railwrod bridge (ie, our tracks) N of the crats. Returned to trails ≈ 1630 hr and I checked the crech for the C. mitchelli - still there, several inches in, quiescent w/ head facing out. We read hunted.
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Greene, H. 1985 21 April (continued) from ~1835 to til 2000 then had desert in yellow and drove back. Only snake was a very cold adult Arizona elegans, AOR at 1930m, 0.7m. S. of Natl Trails Hwy on Pisgah Water Rd. Forgot to say we continued to collect scat today, including Lynx and both species of Canids. Claudia took several from a burrow mouth where we stopped for Xantusia - a little puzzling since they were the right size for Vulpes, but the burrow stuck me as more likely coyote (~8-10" x 12-14"). This whole trip I've been impressed by the number of bobcat, fox, and coyote scat we've seen. 22 April Up at 0600 to pack. Checked the Crotalus mitchelli - still in the crack, but in a side crack and ca. 14" into the lava. Could see only the edge of a coil. Left ~0715.
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17 May Beholdy - PS 18 may Desert symposium, Garnett Dunes, OKV, C. caracote, 19 may Prigah - M.F., Z.C.M., Z.C.C., Phyllohyphodes 20 may FW Fri 24 May Prigah Sat 25 May M.F. 9:06 Sun 26 to sleep wool - M.F. Montusia Garbelia Mon 27 Belay left Eric arrived Tue 28 morad hunt, laundry, Belay left? Wed 29 fell/M.F. Arnold arrived Thur 30 sheep coral RH to Anbaz, walked around Fri 31 waded C. F dig pit Arnold left 1 2
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Azores, Id. 1985 18 May Palm Springs, San Bernardino Co., California arrived here last night to attend Desert Reptile Symposium, in honor of Stelbris, at Palm Springs Desert Museum. Near sundown we walked around dunes on Washington avenue, a mile or so N. of I 10. "We" includes Ben Dial, Jon Losos, John Cawthors, Jeff Kaufmann, and Chris Austin. Claudia saw sand spraying out of a burrow, and we looked into to see a small Crotalus cerastes which eluded our efforts and escaped down it. 19 May Piogah Lava Flow, San Bernardino Co., California Claudia John and I arrived here in early afternoon and unloaded some supplies at our trailer, ~ 1 mi W. of the crale. Driving out, at 1513hr, we caught a ~ 1m Mastigophis flagellum draped over lava, beside a Neotoma nest [specimen later accidentally released]. Went to the "Piogah Hilton", an old mine shed ~ 5 mi. S. Natt Trails Hwy on a dirt powdery road and ~ 2 mi W of the crate. At 1945hr got a 468+29mm Crotalus mitchelli, 70g, which was heard rattling by a student as he walked by. Palped (empty) and released it, after clipping second verteb. We were here to link up w/ ~ 25 former Zoology 107 students, and when they arrived I learned that
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Greene, H. 1985 19 May (my father died suddenly of a heart attack (continued) last night. Claudia and I made two trips to Judlow to get the details and make travel arrangements for me to Fort Worth. Got a Crotalus cerastes and a Phyllodrymus on the way. 24 May Returned to Bisgah today, having traveled back from Fort Worth via Ontario airport. Met Claudia at the Twin Mountain Mine office at the Crete, where we talked w/ two men about their snakebite problem. One is recovering from a cerastes bite, and they've had a recent rash of sightings. Claudia had returned here yesterday from Darwin Falls w/ Wayre Sousa and Betty Mitchell (both UCB), who are going to watch Crepidophorus.
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Azere, H. 1985 28 July Left Berkeley x0845AM, Honda's odometer 15918. Stopped only for gas until I hit Newberg Springs. Right after I left the Interstate there was an old station wagon smoking beside the road - woman standing beside it nervously, man x my age and two young boys walking toward Newberg Springs. As I pulled over they ran up, told me their oil light came on. Car smoking pretty bad, so I said to stay away from it and drove the few blocks to the first bar. Caused a stir when I ran in shutters and got their fire extinguisher. When I returned the engine was on fire, billowing black smoke, and the family was unloading the car. Yelled for them to stay away and tried to unstitch the fire extinguisher. Little kid was yelling about getting his skateboard out! Finally got the extinguisher going, started spraying under the car - got about 3 seconds of spray when it quit. At the same time there was a loud pow under the hood - everyone scattered and I jumped in a ditch beside the car. Told them once more to stay away drove to bar, found out they'd called the fire truck, and I decided to go on to to Juddow where I was to meet Ben Dial (Chapman College) for dinner. As I drove east out of Newberg Springs I met a fire truck going west and from several miles away could see dark smoking reaching hundreds of feet into the sky.
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there, H. 1985 28 July [continued] Wondered if they were OK. We went to the Sidewalk Cafe for dining, and before hand checked the spot - can gone, lots of black crud on highway and broken glass. Road hunted from x 2045-0045 hr, mostly around Bisgah but we made one 10 mile trek down the road to Anboy. Saw a few rabbits and a few Dipidorys. Two Xantusia vigilis HHR = 2100hr. a few miles E of Newberg Springs, where Tamariash line the road. Only snake was a Phyllohyrchos decentalis, 1/1mi W of RR at 2320 hr - arrow, approx 30 cm TL, no food, released. Full moon, clear sky, fairly warm. 29 July Left Ludlow =0900hr, arrived at Dave Hardy's house in Tucson at x=1700hr, having only stopped for gas and to stretch a couple of lines. Nicest part of the drive was the first 450 miles S. of Needles on U.S. 95 - some of the prettiest desert mountain scenery I've seen in California. Looked like a good road for Tiromophodon and Lichenarra. 30 July Spent all day at the University of Arizona, examining preserved Timorphodon and Diadophis. Had a fine talk w/ Chuck Lowe, who regaled me w/ tales of early Stebbins etc. Met George Middendorf (Howard U.), his new wife Sally, and Howard Lawter for road hunting from 2100-0100, w/ an hour or so off at Howard's place in the Arva Valley. Saw an adult Crotalus atrox between Gates Pass and the Desert Museum. Most of the time we were on the road to Silverbell and
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Greer, H. 1985 30 July (continued) vicinity. Saw lots of Bufo alvarius and / Scaphiopus couchii. Saw 2 Crotalus cerastes (AOR 2345 hr, AOR/POR 2359 hr), 1 L. atrox (AOR 2314 hr), and 1 Vulpes macrotus (AOR 2332 hr). Also >3 Canis latrans, of which I saw a pair lope off among saguaros at dusk before I left the Hardy's house in Tucson (Sabino Canyon). 31 July Up late. Went shopping. Storms all around Tucson by late afternoon, and some rain as I left at ~1630 hr for Howard Lanter's place in the Arava Valley. After dinner, road hunted from ~2000-2400 hr. Saw 1 neonate Crotalus scutulatus, 1 Rhinocoleus leorlin, 3 Pituophis melanoleucus, 1 Haplopeltis scitulus (crawling across road in driving rain), 1 Phrynosoma solare (cactus on road, well after dark), several coyotes (two of which I stopped w/ mouth noises), numerous Scaphiopus couchii, and dozens of Bufo alvarius. We were driving mostly in the valley (on Sandario Rd.) or foothills (back and forth over Gates Pass Rd.). The Bufo alvarius are absurd sapos: alive they look like fresh cow pies - round, moist, and green. Dead they are large enough to be a little macabre, w/ bloody legs poking the sky. Sometimes as the car approaches they rise high and run w/ a strange fast crab walk! Got home ~0130 hr.
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Greene, H. 1985 1 August Got up late. After lunch went to see Don Miles, at a place east of town on Prince Rd. Coming back, at the base of the Hardy's hill on Old Sabino Canyon Rd., I saw a woodrunner w/ an adult Creomidorhous sp. in its fell. Overcast and rather cool all day. After dinner w/ the Hardys picked up Howard Lawler and wood hunted from ≈2130-2330 h, from Amity Rd to Ajo Rd on Sardario Rd, and over Gota Pass. Saw only 1 juvenile Crotalus scutulatus (DOE), 1 small adult C. atrox (HOE/pae), and 1 DOE juvenile Rhinocdalis decorlei, plus a fair number of Scaphiopus and Bufo alvarius - all on Sardario Rd. Almost full moon, so very bright when not obscured by the clouds. 2 August Out to Desert Museum for lunch and a visit w/ Howard Lawler (my wood hunting companion all week and Curator of Small Animals). Rained very heavily. After dinner, Dave Hardy and I drove to Vail, ≈25 miles SE of Tucson. Saw only Bufo alvarius, Scaphiopus, a Coleonyx, and one subadult Crotalus scutulatus. Not raining, large moon intermittently visible. 3 August After lunch drove to Cave Creek Canyon in the Chiricahuas Mountains, Coctise Co. to see Barney Torberlin. Stopped for gas in Bowie, a few miles W. of the New Mexico line on I-10. Lady in store said she'd had a bad day with
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There, H. 1985 3 August (continued) Barry and Max Beckwith, a 16 yr-old from Marin Co. who's down here helping him. They have a live and DOR Diadophis and a Trimorphoden for me. We road hunted from ~2000-2300h out of Portal, down Stetline Rd., and down S. on U.S. 80 to ~20mi out of Douglas. Saw Scaphiopus, Bfs alvarens, 2 juv and 1 adult Crotalus atrox, 1 juv C. scutulatus, and 4 Thamnophis marcians. Heavy thunderstorms all around and much water on the roads, but no rain on us. Stopped at a ditch near Portal, in mesquite, to see Scaphiopus couchii and S. multiplicatus in a snifed chorus. 4 August ~0900 went to a hill ~5 mi NE of Portal, on the dirt road to San Simon. Cestoti and mesquite on the flats, ocotillo and cacti among boulders on the slopes, some rocky cliffs high on the hills. Max showed me a dead Mastigophis bilineatus they had seen several days earlier, and I was impressed by the resemblance of its blue-gray skin to a dead branch. I found a Coleonyx under a pile of dead agave leaves, the only heaps under ~25 of these I turned. At 0945h a cow caused a Crotalus atrox to rattle from under an ocotillo (cow startled!). It was ~1m long, reluctant to leave the small spot of shade it occupied, and hissed and rattled continuously.
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Greene, H. 1985 4 August (continued) Our goal here was Heloderma, which have been seen in the vicinity, but we found no other herps before leaving ≈1000 hr. After a dip to Rosier, New Mexico for food, Max and I went to a good site for Crotalus lepidus in Cave Creek Canyon. We hiked ≈1 hr from the road to Ash Spring, then ≈1 hr above it to an area of talus slides in forest, a few hundred feet below large cliffs on an E or SE facing slope. Trail is often in the open and rocky, winding through open forest. Lots of agaves. Just as we started walking, in thicket woods, we found a juvenile Phymosora douglasii in the road, a close match to the leaves and rocks it sat amongst (this was at 1247hr). at 1313hr I heard rattle nearby and found a ♀ Crotalus lepidus (37g) going under rubble beside the trail. As we pulled her out Max saw ≥4 newborn young (open umbilical scars, opaque skin), one of which we were able to catch and photograph. At Ash Spring we drank cold, good tasty water and released a beautiful yellow Crotalus molossus (640g) Barry had sent w/us. At the uppermost rock slides Max caught 3 more C. lepidus, one of which I kept. With all these snakes I was impressed with their snappiness, constant
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Greer, H. 1985 4 August (continued) rattling, and efforts to seek shelter rapidly. Wondered if rattling for them serves as a "pursuit invitation signal?" At 1513 hr, just as we were coming back from above to Ash Springs, through heavy woods, I heard sounds in the leaves behind me. Turned to see a ~80 cm Pituophis melanoleucus crawl rapidly across the trail and try to ascend an oak. After I'd seized and examined the snake, it readily ascended the tree to ~3 m. All along the trail, up and down, we saw lizards - several each of Sceloporus jarrovii and S. virgatus and 1 S. clarki. After dinner went road hunting w/George Middleton. I trip up and down Cave Creek Canyon and two out to ~5 mi S. of the Portal store on the flat top to Roder. Saw 2 juvenile Crotalus scutulatus and 1 juvenile C. atrox, and surprisingly, an adult C. lepidus AOR at 0.6 mi S. of the Portal Store in mesquite. Snake was ~35 cm total length w/ an empty stomach, crawling from the east side of the road (Mesquite, Cave Creek) toward the west, which is more open and has a hill with cliffs ~1/4 mile away. Torberlin proposes the snake was washed down out of Cave Creek Canyon in a large flash flood a few days ago.
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Greene, H. 1985 5 August Left ~0830 w/ Barney and Max for a talus slide ~8600' near Rustlers' Point. It is a S or SE facing steep slope, w/ oaks, pines, manzanita, and large open fields of talus. As we came over the crest to descend, heard a big commotion and saw a >400 pound red bull hanging by its neck from an oak tree crotch - it had apparently lost its footing and slid into that predicament. Barney dashed off to the car to get a saw at a Forest Service station up the road, but the bull evidently died about that time as it never moved again and D could detect no movements. Max and I began to search the talus, and w/in minutes (0940hr) we heard then caught a large adult Crotalus pricei. It had an empty stomach and seemed light so while taking photos we spotted it a Sceloporus virgatus which it ate! also saw numerous S. janzovi. It was bright and sunny when we arrived, but dark clouds blew in from the NW and a light rain fell sporadically as we left. Next stopped downhill (still well above the Southwestern Research Station) and worked up and down road along East Turkey Creek for an hour or so. Saw lots of Sceloporus, but the only snake was a nice young adult C. molossus Barney found sunning in front of a rock, a
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Greene, H. 1985 5 August (continued) few meters above the creek in open woods. Hooked it out gently, which elicited only mild rattling, and into a sack-- might be digesting a meal. Driving back, just down canyon from the SWRS, a large Mastigophis bilineatus crossed the road and disappeared near the creek among trees -- very fast. Met Vince Roth, Director of the Southwestern Research Station, who gave me a beautiful Elgaria kingii he caught today near the station. After dark made three circuits up Cave Creek Canyon to the S.W.R.S. and three trips 3.0 miles S. of Portal, from x 20-2230 hrs. Saw 2 Crotalus scutulatus juveniles on the southern runs (2052h, 2154h, not collected). Got a large, beautiful Elaphe tigris just crawling into the road in Cave Creek Canyon at 2018, 0.5 mi toward S.W.R.S. past the turn to South Fork. It lay motionless until picked up, then formed an acute S-coil and struck wildly until bagged. At 2110h found a large Hypsiglena torquata just hit near S.W.R.S. At 2045h there was a Micrurus eurypterus AOR in mesquite 1.5 mi S. of Portal, easily recognizable from w/in the car. When I restrained the snake it began wild contortions, taildisplay, snapping and biting, and sharp cloacal popping that was easily audible. When I examined the snake two hours later it had reingested a
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Greene, H. 1985 5 August (continued) freshly ingested leptotyphlops (4g). Barney and Max had gone to New Mexico, where they collected a Gylpius canum and a Crotalus that appears scale-wise and in coloration to be a hybrid Crotalus molossus x scutulatus. They also gave me a DOR adult C. scutulatus from New Mexico and a just hatched C. molossus from Cave Creek Canyon. What a day! [Need to add some mammal notes: yesterday I saw an Apache Fox Squirrel on the road to Ash Spring and Ursus americanus scat on the trail above there. I have seen numerous deer, rabbits, and ground squirrels. Just dusk, at 1759 hr, I encountered a javelina just down the paved road to Portal from Dave Hardy's house] I must stress how impossible it was to tell head from tail on the Micrurusoides during its display. 6 August Drove up to the collection site of Elaphe lisaapis for photographs -- heavily wooded on the SW, w/ canyon walls nearby, open field w/oaks, then stream and canyon walls on the NE. Back to Barney's for breakfast and photographs of the snakes. The Micrurusoides repeated its performance, and I noticed that when the body extends and freezes, the head is tucked back acutely, enhancing resemblance to the tail. As I drove S. of Portal @ 0930 hr, found a ~5' Pituophis melandricus stretched out on the pavement.
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Heese, H. 1985 7 August Spent last night with Chuck and Mickey Bogert in Santa Fe, and made it to "Nath Pine," a cabin owned by Rob Colwell's folks in Drake, Colorado. 8 August To Boulder for Rob's wedding. 9 August Drove to Salt Lake City via Laramie and Rock Springs, Wyoming. 10 August Spent today w/ Ian Radinsky, Leah Radinsky (daughter), and Sharon Emerson at their house near Park City. Checked my snakes, and discovered a large scot of the Crotalus molossus - confirming my suspicion that it was digesting a meal when found. 11 August Salt Lake City to Flagstaff via I-? and Utah 89, the latter through spectacular Vermillion cliffs of the canyon country. Noted that the habitat north of the Sunset/ San Francisco Peaks area, where Lampropeltis has been taken, is juniper - sage - grassland. Spent the night in the El Pueblo Motel, a cheap dump. 12 August Drove to Tucson, via Phoenix where I picked up a Helodema suspectum from the Arizona Game and Fish Dept. Arrived Tucson ~ 1300 hr. As I left the Hardy's house at 1808 hr, a 12 cm carapace length Gopherus agassizii was crossing their driveway. Road hunted from ~ 1930 - 2330 hr, picking up and
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Flores, H. 1985 12 August dropping off Howard Hawker at his home in the Avza (continued) Valley in the course of things. No rain, dark moon, warm, as before, our route was up and down (N-S) on Sandario Rd., an area of lowland desert that is particularly moist at its south end (it ends at the Ajo Rd.), alternated with trips over the Tucson Mountains via Mile Wide, Kinney, and Gates Pass Roads, turning west again at Camino de Oeste on the western outside of Tucson. Found 17 snakes and saw 2 carnivores: a fresh DOR Trimorphodon biscutatus low on the E. slopes of the Tucson Mountains (2111 hr), 2 AOR juvenile Rhinocaelus decortei, claus-phase (2032 hr, not collected, in Saguaro National Monument), 2139 hr); 2 DOR Pituophis melanoleucus (1929 hr, 2354 hr); 1 AOR yearly Crotalus ligus (2136 hr); and 1 AOR juvenile C. atrox (2132 hr) on the western slopes of the Tucson Mountains. All of the above snakes came from rocky, upland desert habitats w/ lots of Saguaros. On Sandario Rd., lowland desert, we saw (didn't collect) 4 juvenile C. atrox (2146, 2149, 2151, ~2310 hrs.), 2 adult C. atrox (2222, ~2340 hr), 3 juvenile C. scutulatus (2200, 2205, 2212 hrs), and 1 adult C. scutulatus (2227 hr). Also saw 1 Canis latrans and 1 Lynx rufus on western slopes of the Tucson Mountains. 13 August Road hunted by myself from ~1930-2200 hr in the upland desert area described above. No rain, dark moon,
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Geese, H. 1985 13 August (continued) hot and sunny all day. Saw only two snakes, a fresh ?OR Pituophis melanoleucus at 2007 hr on Mile Wide Rd and an ??% juvenile Crotalus atrox at 2018 hr on the McCain Loop Rd (off Kinney Rd). Also saw 5 Canis latrans and a small adult Tupidea tapes, the latter a few minutes after the little C. atrox. Big coyote chorus around midnight at the Hardy's. 14 August Hot and sunny all day, dark moon. Road hunted same route as last night, 1930-2145 hr. [illegible] Saw only two snakes, a large ? AOR Trimerophodan bisculatus at 2018 hr on Mile Wide Rd. and a juvenile ?OR Crotalus atrox on McCain Loop a few minutes later. The lyre snake was in rocky upland desert, lots of saguaros; I picked it up gently and it only vibrated its tail. 15 August Drove from Tucson to Mojave, California. 111°F in the shade in Needles in mid-afternoon. 16 August Back in Berkeley x 1400 hr, 5450 miles later.
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H. Greene 1985-1989 Journal 1986 Calif: San Bernadino, Siskiyou Cos.
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Greene, H 1986 25 April Pisgah Lava Flow, San Bernardino Cr., California arrived here ~0130 hr w/ Zoology 165 (Herpetology) class from Berkeley; 27 students, 2 TA's, and 2 guests. Spent the morning looking around the "Pisgah Hill" and saw Sauromalus, Gremidophous, Uta, Garbelia, Crotaphytus (1F w/rel, ran bipedally), also Callisaurus, and Dipsosaurus. Yesterday just after dusk Claudia Jake found 2 Bufo on the road. After lunch drove eastward. Dora Camp, N side of Granite Mtns, San Bernardino Cr. arrived here ~1430 hr and spent the afternoon exploring in the rocks. Claudia got a DOR Crotalus cerastes on Kelbaker Rd on the way in; after dinner, took one car and drove to Kelso ad back, got only 1 chionactis. 26 April at ~0730 hr Kathy Devaney found a juvenile Saladora helolepis crawling among cholla and shrubs a few yards from the ranch house (umbilical scar obvious, SV , tail ). Spent the morning exploring boulder slopes and the tajada sweeping NE from the ranch. I saw Gremidophous, Uta, and 2 Neotoma. Doug Brown found a beautiful, apparently gravid Lichanura out on Hegard among boulders at ~0830-0900 (SV ~725, tail 80+?, 380 g). at ~1115hr I found an adult Crotalus mitchelli crawling under a large boulder - rattled when I hooked
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Deere, H. 1986 26 April (continued) it out (? possibly gravid, 785+67 mm, 440 g, notly palpable in stomach). At lunch others came back w/ a huge Sauromalus and an adult ? Salvadora hexalepis. John Carothers brought in a Crotalus mitchelli found resting under a boulder (?, 1000+72 mm, 991 g after meal palpated), from which I palpated a Syfrlagus that had been swallowed head-first. He also caught in a cholla a large Masticophis flagellum (1205+400 mm, 474 g after meal palpated) from which I palpated a Dipdorys that had been swallowed head-first. Pat Collett found a Hypsiglena torquata under a yucca log.
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Greene, H. 1984 2 July Rising Lava Flow, San Bernardino Co., California Arrived here ~2:00 hr, having left Berkeley ~5 pm. Road hunted for ~30 min and saw 2 Phylloblynelus and 1 Crotalus cerastes; palpated a Dipodomyx out of the latter and pickled the snake and prey. Met Claudia Leike and Alexis Schuler, who arrived here several days earlier. They saw an Angora elegans on the road. 3 July Couldn't sleep because of the heat and flies, so I Got up ~0230 and went to Ludlow for ice, juice, etc. Saw a Phylloblynelus near the RR tracks at 0323 hr. Woke up ~0600, ate some melon, and checked out the mine shaft entrance of Rising Hilton for Crotalus mitchelli. Alexis has seen several times. The snake started rattling when I poked in rocks where she indicated, but it is deep in a crevice and I couldn't see it. Had breakfast in Ludlow & then to Granites. Down Camp Granite Mtns., San Bernardino Co., California Arrived here to write and relax in solitude for two days. Hot, but not as bad as at Rising - only ~95 F in shade here. Went to Baker for dinner, then road hunted back and forth on Kelbaker. At sundown I walked up a rocky slope 2.5 mi N. of Kelso, where a large mountain range sprouts down to the road from the W. Soon heard a rattling at my feet, and caught a famished looking little Crotalus mitchelli that was active in the rocks. It struck readily at my flashlight.
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Greene, H. 1986 3 July (continued) Didn't have a sack, so took out the batteries and carried it in the flashlight. After dark got an adult Crotalus cerastes and a Colonyx just N of where the large Kelsoa Lava Flow intersects the road, then an Arizona and a yearly (?) C. sentulatus on the way back to Kelso. 4 July Spent the day revising a chapter on defense in reptiles. Took periodic breaks to photograph rabbits and observe Anrosphenophitus frogs in a 2m high Lanea. Is this secondary arboreality? These aren't any more ground squirrels than Sciurus - their
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Greene, H. 1986 27 July Left Berkeley & noon and arrived in Mt. Shasta in time for supper, after getting a room at the Evergreen lodge. Then drove to Grasshopper Flat, 24.1 miles N. of Battle (Hwy 89) on Harris Spring Rd. Arrived well before sunset, to look for more Phrynosoma douglassii (see R.C. Stebbins notes for earlier this month). Saw only deer, and it seems too cool for lizard activity. Drove 3.2 miles further north to Pumice Stone Well, a very picturesque pond in a meadow at & 6100' and just below Pumice Stone Mountain. Walked around looking for Thamnophis, and saw lots of tadpoles and recently transformed Hyla regilla. Flipped many cow pies, and collected 13 Arlystoma macrodactylum under them (saw others). Road hunted from & 2030-2330 hr, and saw only one Bufo boreas, one Charina cottae, an adult and a young Eithhigon together, and lots of rodent (Dipodonyx, Perognathus for sure). 28 July
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H. Greene 1985-1989 Journal 1987 Costa Rica Calif: Contra Costa Co. Arizona: Pima, Cochise Cos. Costa Rica
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Freere, H. 1987 15 June Estacion Biologica La Selva, Provincia Heredia, Costa Rica Arrived here ~1030hr, after a ~2 hour ride from the OTS office. Much has changed! Road is good all the way to Puerto Viejo, there are soldiers w/ M-16 that check all vehicles entering the town, and there is a new OTS facility on the north side of River from the station. Left Berkeley early on the 13th, spent the night in Miami to visit Mr Donnelly and Jay and Becky Savage, and got to San Jose ~1500hr. Ran in to Eddie Aguirre in Miami (he is a friend of Dijie Reison from Berkeley and I met him at La Selva), on his way to visit Maria Teresa Kobey (
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Greene, H. 1987 15 June (continued) a rough spiral beginning at the pallet, while Joanne stayed put denying the snake's exit. W/in 5 minutes she found the snake, almost hidden under ferns a few cms high! It is 1/2 m N. of the pallet, in a tight sleeping coil. Judging from the size of the coil (~25 cm) and it's color (tan, not red of juveniles) I guess it to be ~1.3 m. Next we entered Plot 1 (nearby) w/ Diana Liebemann to look for a large boa she saw last week, and were soon thoroughly lost. Eventually emerged in the Sendero Occidental (we had entered on the Sendero Experimental Sur) 30-45 min later. No snakes. It rained very hard from ~1830 - 2030 hrs, after which I walked the new Sendero Cartanana, a boardwalk through a swamp in the Ecological Reserve. Moderate number of Hyla straccathi and other frogs calling. 16 June Relocated Lachesis muta in same place as yesterday. The site is a few tens of meters from a plastic lecho at ~530 SES, on a heading of ~210° (~5). Snake is coiled in some place, w/ head down and facing 180° (S). Jerked once when I disturbed a twig nearby. This was at 0808 hrs. Next walked to station, through the Ecol. Res. swamps, out SOC and
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Greene, H. 1987 16 June (continued) around the Camino Circular. Saw a fresh foam nest (Leptodactylus pentadactylus ?) in the swamp, a few frogs calling, and a fresh pile of plucked feathers at the E end of the boardwalk w/ no associated snakes. Two types - small w/ white base & red-brown or orangish outer part, and small finolved orange - brown, white, ad gray at base ad white base w/ bleach outer half, marked by two white spots. Perhaps prey of a hawk? Very hot and humid day - at least to me! Thinking about Lochesis as I walked today: maybe they mostly die from parasites, at least the big ones. What is the effect of prey specialization on parasitism? Someone brought in a small Micrurus nigricatus at lunch (222+28mm, 3.7g, no food); it thrashed, bit readily, and prolapsed the cloaca when seized, but coiled the tail only w/ repeated on the head and body. Bob Margiins (U. Illinois) brought in a Bothrops nasutus from 1400 LOC, found this morning (282+29mm, 17.3g, gravid - several small ova, no food). Gollin Orions (Penn State U.) drove me to ~650 CES, where this AM he found a B. nasutus, which we located ~1330 (320+28, 20.5g, no food, possible enlarged ova). The little viper was in a
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H. H. 1987 June 16 (continued) light coil at the end of a rotten fallen limb ~10 cm in diameter, facing the [illegible] length of the limb - ~1m, ending at a large fallen log. Snake jerked to alertness when touched w/ a snake stick, suggesting to me that it was asleep. Viper was in a good position to strike an oncoming rodent, which perhaps it would only do at night. While walking out to see that snake, at 1302 hr, I spied a Leptophis nebulosus (735+465, 54g) ging into a crack/hole/litter at the base of a buttressed tree beside the trail at ~1:00 CES. Snake propped the cloaca & thrusted when grasped, snifting a foul and distinctive smell (vaguely like agkistrodon), as soon as in the open it gaped widely, orienting to my moving hand, and stunned and bit at close objects. At 1400 hr, I was sent to the bathroom below cabin #3 where there was a Leptodeira septentrionalis on a baseboard, in the dark behind the door (480+126, ?, 16.0g, no food). This morning was sunny, hot, humid, but by 1500 hr it is dark and there is loud, long thunder. Rained until after dinner. Went w/ Joanne Sharpe to see the young Lachesis, which at 2010 hr was in the raised alert posture, facing E, and on the "original" pallet at the tree base. Thus, sometime since this morning she had
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Heene, H. 1987 16 June moved from under the Danaea fern. Saw (continued) several hylids on wet leaves along the trail. 17 June left at ≈0700 w/ Diana Ziebesmann, Victor Robles, Jibby Knight and her brother David (she is a Berkeley undergrad in the EAP), and Mark? (ABC reporter from San Diego soon to travel w/ the contras and Sandanistas in Nicaragua. We walked to Plot III, ≈ a 45 min walk on the 550, where deep within the plot they saw a matabuey and a terciopalo yesterday. It is steep terrain. The Bothrops asper was ≈1m and under the edge of a small chunk of log in a dense, rank treefall on a steep slope. The snake wasn't there today. The lachosis muta was largely concealed under a dry fallen Welfia frond, ≈2m from an old fallen tree and ≤7m (about equidistant) from two adult Welfia. It was asleep, but when I lifted the frond it pulled in its coils and formed a tight, elevated striking coil. The first reaction to me lifting it in the air was slow crawling, but after I failed to get it in the trashcan on the first try it slid to the ground and assumed an open striking coil. Neck & anterior was flattened in a vertical plane and the whole body seemed inflated. It took 2-3 long stashes at me, impressively long!
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Greene, H. 1987 17 June (continued) Toth ~10 minutes to finally get it in the can, and I never saw it fail Wilzate. No other snakes in >2 hours of walking. Overcast. Janne Sheep check the Lachesis muta at CES 630, and it was back under the Danaea fern w/ head facing ~N (opposite the direction from the site it was hunting last night). It rained hard for ~2 hours this afternoon. I checked the snake at 2005h and it was back at the open site, 1 m from the fern bed, at the base of the small tree and facing E. Very alert. Walked through the new swamps; saw and heard Hyla logyxa. at ~2200 saw a nice big Smilicia gandini on the bridge railing on the dining hall side, where vegetation comes up to the boardwalk. On June 12th Rebecca Butterfield saw a large multispecies frog chorus in the new swamp (Ger. Sendero Cantarosa), including hybrids, Azalychnis callidryas, and a couple ~ Leptodactylus pentadactylus. She described 2 slender yellowish snakes w/ blunt heads and big eyes and were surely Imantodes inornatus; both were on branches overhanging the boardwalk, and one was sagging w/ a large food mass.
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Free, H. 1987 18 June after breakfast, measured the big haesis muter: 1780 mm SV, tail 175 mm, 3.75 Kg. She seemed moderately aggressive, repeatedly forming a striking coil and keeping the body inflated and vertically flattened. She (?) seemed exceptionally heavy, but the people helping me hold her couldn't palp eggs or food of any certainty. Before breakfast the workmen found a Leptodeira septentrials under a tire at their shed, on the edge of second growth (523+149 mm, 27.3 g). It assumed an exaggerated S-coil, expanded the head posteriorly, and made slow awkward twitches. Tried to bite when seized. It had recently eaten a hydrid w/green bones, SV 38 mm, max load width 10.5 mm, 2 g. After lunch, went out 50# and into Plot I-4 to photograph a large spider, feeding on what had been a yellow hybid (?) in its web. Diana Jiehemann had found them this AM, when the frog was largely intact. Left at 1600h to check the haesis on CES. at 1616h, 250 CES, caught a Leptophis chaetulla (? possibly gravid, 840+530 mm, 105 g) crossing the trail in a grade. Snake immediately prolapsed the cloaca, emitting a strong odor very similar to the L. nebulosus earlier this week. Thrashed laterally and along its long axis, gaped
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Ezeo, lt. 1987 18 June (continued) and repeatedly swung round to title. At 1624 found the L. muta asleep in ferns, head facing W. Very still and humid, no rain yet today. Lots of snakes lately: Rodolfo (Cathy Pringle's assistant) brought me 3 young Bothrops asper (not neonates) yesterday (our food) and Orlando saw another today. Joanne saw an adult Pseustes poecilonotus in tangle behind the banco of the Old Station, which inflated its throat; and a Chironius glandiguamus out on a trail. Danilo Brenes saw a young Felis pardalis cross the Sendero Jaguar this afternoon and Tracho, probably of the same species. He saw tracks of Felis onca on the same trail 8 days ago. After dinner walked out to checked the hachesis but couldn't find the site in the dark. Cursing back along the trail I found a nice male Hyla refitola on a leaf a few cm above the ground. Hot, humid day, no rain. 19 June A hot, sunny morning. As early as ~0620 there was a large ? Iguana iguana in a relatively small Cecropia, sunning w/ dewlap out. (This is the same Cecropia.) Seemingly in prime and freshly shed, w/ a small patch of skin hanging on one foreleg. Gave one bout of bobo as I watched. It was perpendicular to the rising sun. When I returned to shoot pictures at ~0815, saw
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Greene, H. 1987 19 June a female adult iguana a few tens of m away (continued) at approx height, on the limb of a large tree in shade. Numerous Rhinoceros vasking on dead logs in the Rio Puerto Viejo, and an adult Caiman crocodilus on a fallen live tree that extends on the bank to river's edge. It had its mouth wide open. Joel gave me another baby Micrurus nigricolus, caught near the workman's shed in the new complex. Beth Braker walked to the South Boundary this morning; she brought back a Felis scat and saw a Mastigodryas melanolorus eat an Anolea festiva. Met Renaldo Aguilar, a guard or ranger for the Zona Protectora, who told me of finding tracks and a kill of a sloth by Panthera onca. Took him to see the Lachesis muta at CES 530, and found it asleep under the Danasa and facing SSE at approx 1400 hrs. Sunny almost all day, (but dark clouds and distant thunder at 1740 hrs. 20 June Rained during the night, morning hot and humid. I am lazy and grouchy! approx 1000h checked the lachesis muta at CES 530 - under Danasa, head pointy W. At 1010 hr Gerardo Vega directed me to a large Pseustes pselidonotus stretched out in grass near a Heliconia patch in the station clearing, near Cabina #1 (it was
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Greene, H. 1987 20 June (continued) thus w/in a few meters of the origins of SOR & CES, when I have caught Pseustes in previous years. Snake has one healthy fickle and a large puncture-wound like scar on its neck, no food, 1390mm SV, 555mm tail, 87, 887g. When seized immediately turning round (it had tried to crawl away) w/ jaws agape, body inflated, bit my jeans and hung on. Repeated handling resulted in emission of a "music" somewhat reminiscent of Elaphe obsoleta (which Pseustes reminds me of in various ways). After dinner ~10 of us went to a dance in Chilanote, a few km west of Puerto Viejo. It was held in a school, as a benefit. We sat on benches and tiny chairs around "strange little tables" that turned out to be desks! The only free space was in a corner near the ocrinal, so we were treated to a stream of honkies. The walls of the school are corrugated metal, and little kids were using a ladder to ascend the wall and peer into the dance hall. We paid 200 colones per male and 100 colones per female to attend, entering through a checkstand of a little table. In one corner was a stand for beer and other drinks run by ~5-6 men, including Rinaldo Aquilar. The place was packed. Speakers everywhere, such that the benches pounded with music. The band alternated ~2 fast, latin beat songs w/ every slow
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June 16, 1987 20 June (continued) "musica romantica." Ticos seem to have two speeds, one of which in comparison to guigo dancing is faster but w/ less lateral movements of the arms and legs - more ritualized. The other is extremely slow, and a strange sort of two-step. Both my speeds are in between them! The custom is that males ask women to dance and they rarely refuse. Although regios like this, Carmen told me, the men tend to be especially pushy and expectant, and to dance especially physically. One couple stood out by their apparel & dancing: he rather typical, w/ shirt open to the waist except for clean dress boots worn over pants like a horseman. She wore a bright red pant suit, black boots, and a small black, sort of modified bowler hat. They danced round the whole room, always arms around each other, and the ticos in our group clearly considered them a little unusual. Carmen and I decided independently that she had a certain resemblance in facial features to an Andean indian, a nice aspect of the evening. That there was quite a mix - La Selva researchers, tics and guigo j ticos I knew in past years also live
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Heene, H. 1987 20 June (continued) nearly and no longer live at la Selva like Jaime (who was w/ Ricky Van Belkum) and Freddie (who was w/ Gretchen Broker). Park service personnel, some of whom like Ronaldo we knew already and some whom we met for the first time; and local people. Periodically the band dedicated a song to persons or groups, e.g., "a Carmen y sus amigos" and to the "a la gente de O.T.S." On the way home, Roberto Gredero, the station manager who was driving, and Rocío Lopez sang passionate songs and the windshield fogged periodically. Finally got in bed, very damp (we were all drenched in sweat long before the dance ended), ~0100h. 21 June at ~0500h Phil Robertson woke me w/ a knock and the news of a small Ieciopeleo downstairs by our bathrooms. Pulled on pants and shoes and went down to discover a large Leptodeira septentrionalis crawling in a corner. Perhaps we should rename this speciesculela del baño, as it is the second such find in a week! 630+189mm, 55g, ♀. It's only response to handling was rapid crawling, writhing, and ejecting a rather foul smelling liquid from the cloaca. Walking back across the bridge after a late breakfast,
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Greene, H. 1987 21 June (continued) I noticed an adult Caiman crocodilus out on a mud bank in partial shade, and numerous Rhinoclemys f. furcata basking in full sun on overcast tree trunks in the Rio Puerto Viejo. A hot and sunny, partly cloudy Sunday morning! Chatteed all afternoon, except for a trip to the water fall. Brief rain in the late afternoon. Checked the lacosis muta at CES 530 at 1929 hr, found it alert under the S. side of the tree, facing S (ie, towards the fallen log. (Forgot to mention that there were bats flying through the room throughout the dance last night, suggesting to us that it would be a great place for a Halloween Party!) 22 June To San Jose this afternoon, including great views of canyons on the edge of Braulio Casillo. 23 June To the "Serpentarium" - Instituto Clodomiro Picado - w/ the O.T.S. class for lectures and demonstrations. Dinner at a nice little french restaurant near the Universidad de Costa Rica, w/ Carmen Rojas. 24 June Up at 0530 to drive to Golfito w/ the O.T.S. course. Palma del Norte, Prov. Cartago, Costa Rica Stopped here for a picnic lunch in early afternoon, in a little park (w/o gazebo) across from the air strip. Saw several adult ♀ and ♂ Gonatodes albovarius active on large trees in the park.
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Heene, H. 1987 24 June Golfito, Prov. Puntarenas, Costa Rica (continued) arrived here ~1530h, at the field station "Las Alamedas," run jointly for the U.C.R. and the U.of Kansas. It consists of the grounds of a former United Fruit Co. operation, right in the Golfo Dulce, and an adjacent forest preserve that apparently is intended primarily as watershed protection. Before dinner, Gene Shupe, Bruce Williamson and I took a ride to the top of a ridge above town to see lay of the land. We walked around some kind of relay tower, el. 505m -- great view of steep forested hillsides, the gulf, and in the distance the Osa Peninsula. 25 June Pia Baby and I lead to orientation walks for 2 hrs each in an area of second growth and forest edge, NW (?) of town a field km. Drove through cattle pasture, then walked on a mowed track, then walked two trails. Saw only Anolis early in the morning, but later several juvenile and adult Ameiva festiva. Photographed a pretty Eleutherodactylus (cf. regulus?) sitting on the end of a mossy stick, cuddled as if conserving water, under a shrub at trail edge in second growth and a few meters from a stream. Got a pentadactylus-like Leptodactylus hiding under large dry leaves nearby. At 0937h I snatched a Tantilla melanophora (256+84mm), 3.9g.
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Greene, H. 1987 25 June (continued) as it crawled off trailsido into leaf litter. Only reaction to handling was to squirm. Walked to a fine waterfall x/1030h. Multiple cataracts over a broad vertical rock face, maybe 10m high, w/a pool at the bottom. We saw two juvenile Basiliscus basiliscus in vegetation and wet rocks, x2 m above the pool, and 2 juvenile Bufo haematitis on wet, mossy boulders at poolside. Morning was hot and sunny, by 1430 it is overcast. 26 June The routine here is up x5:45 for breakfast at 0600, than begin activities at 7AM. Today Pia and I and a park guard named Sigfredo lead 2 more groups for 2 hours each in one general area of waterfall. A crude sketch: [illegible] water falls stream house at entrance Osa Peninsula colfa dulce Golfito x"las Alamedas" area of orientation walks Forest Reserve
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Greene, H. 1987 26 June (continued) Saw only Anolis and Oreira on the trails, and several juvenile Bufo haematitis around the big lower waterfall. Afternoon and evening devoted to indoor exercises and lectures. 27 June Lia and I lead a field problem or observational study of behavior in the general region of the waterfall. We watched a Rhynchlastus swainsoni casually and did focal animal and instantaneous sampling on Anartia fatilia butterflies in an open stretch along the main stream, and on 7 juvenile Basiliscus basiliscus at the waterfall. Again saw Anolis and Oreira on the trails, and Bufo haematitis on wet rocks among moss, at the waterfall. Indoor activities in the afternoon & evening. 28 June A repeat of yesterday's field problem, w/a different group. Nice long shower in the afternoon. Indoor events afternoon and evening. 29 June Students are doing group projects w/out us. One of our drivers brought me a Steirophina legerhardtii found on the road at the NW edge of Golfito, still alive but w/ a broken neck at ~0800 h. (77g, 510+122 mm, photographed). 30 June Left Golfito at ~0830 h, arrived in San Jose in a driving rain ~1430h, w/ only a stop for diesel fuel. Just me and the driver, Maurel Fonseca, who told me there's lots of communism around Golfito and that our President Reagan doesn't like the poor.
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Green, H. 1987 1 July Parque Nacional Manuel Antonio, Prov. Puntarenas, Costa Rica Arrived here and took a room at the Hotel Manuel Antonio at approx 0900 hr, after a fast and uneventful flight on "Sansa" to Quepos. W/ Beth Newell, a Stanford U. postdoc who works at La Selva, and we initially had some confusion over a room because we wanted two beds - finally ended up for the same price in a room of w/ four beds. Went for a walk into the park, which basically consists of four bays w/ beaches and the adjacent forest. After a rest we went NW from the hotel along a road that parallels the shore. Saw several juvenile Ctenosaura sunning on the road and nearby rocks, and a couple of Anolea (not festiva - A. quadilineata?), and one smallish adult (?). A fine dinner of fish, ceviche, and a giant quasi banana split we shared. 2 July Entrance N Playa Espadilla Sur Punta Catedral Playa Manuel Antonio Puerto Escondido punta Serrucho
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Greene, H. 1987 2 July (continued) We left ~0830 for the park, intending to walk to Punta Semiedo, ~2.5km. Learned at the headquarters that we couldn't use that trail until 114hr (use is timed to low tide because of dangerous currents). Instead walked the trail around Punta Catedral, which took ~an hour. Nice forest, tho we saw only Breina (cf. festiva) and Arolis, and literally hundreds of spectacular land crabs - dark red-brown carapaces, bright orange legs and yellow eyes (or at least eyespots). Sitting on the beach at the end (ie. Playa Manuel Antonio) we watched a very healthy looking, large male Ctenosaura similis ambly along the forest edge, frequently seizing some whitish object (fruit?) from the leaf litter and swallowing it w/ a few jaw movements. At 1100 we entered the trail to Puerto Escondido, which winds through forest then emerges after a steep slope onto a rocky beach. Whole loop took us 2 hours, including the time spent being lazy on the beach. Late this afternoon we went back to Playa Espadilla Sur to swim (best waves) as a thunder storm came in. We got back before it hit at ~1600hr, and watched a tremendous two hour downpour from the balcony of the Hotel Manuel Antonio. (see below) 4 July Up early and to the
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Greene, H. 1987 4 July flight to San Jose. at the airport we saw (continued) a Beachcraft (?) under guard w/ flat tires, and later read in the newspaper that they had been shut out in an enormous cocaine rust. Uneventful flight and back to the Hotel Galilea and breakfast in San Jose by 10AM. Shortly after I started out and ran into Dan Jansen, then had a visit w/him before going to lunch w/ Beth. While having coffee at the Parisian Cafe, we met unexpectedly Mike and Patricia Fogden, on their way to the states. 3 July Forgot this day, which we took lazily. Went back to Puerto Cathedral and photographed crabs. Saw one that had been partially eaten. 5 July Caught a 9AM bus, had a terrific view of Braulio Carrillo N.P. Then a long, slow trip via Rio Frío and arrived at La Selva in time for a late lunch ~1230. At 1616hr I found the subadult Lachesis muta under the Danaea fern, just as I last saw it two weeks ago! Earlier, ~1400h, watched two Leptus longicauda hunting in the Rio Puerto Viejo, from the La Selva Bridge. They dived frequently, seemingly searching undersides of partially submerged logs. At least twice one of them caught some sort of large crustacean,
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Heene, H. 1987 5 July (continued) large enough it seemed to more than fill the month, and the carapace of which could easily be heard cracking from up where we stood. Once we could clearly see that the legs were removed, seemingly by either tearing or slamming against the log or both. Two large trees a few tens of meters apart were searched in less than 10 minutes, and at least two prey were caught at the second. The two seemed to hunt independently, but several times mutually approached and contacted each others' heads. 6 July A cloudy, drizzly morning - rain supposedly started ~0100 hrs. I actually thought of getting a blanket during the night. Checked the Lachesis muta at CES 530 at 1600hr - under Danasa. 7 July Overcast w/ sunny spots. Walked out to Holdridge 225, where yesterday Rodolfo saw a Bothrops asper on the trail. Saw it at 0815 hr, loosely coiled on the trail at E edge (successional plots), facing into the trail and seemingly asleep. Took pictures. It is an adult, perhaps 1.5-1.7 m total, brown and gray, and grey skinning. Judging from length and tail shape, it is a female and perhaps recently gave birth. Walked back to the CCL and went around the loop. Missed what was either a Dermaplution or a juvenile Mastigodryas when it dashed under the boardwalk at ~0840. At 0859 hr, CCL 950m,
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Heene, H. 1987 7 July (continued) I scratched a Leptophis ahaetulla as it lay immobile in shade on the trail. Do they freeze as one approaches? It is a gravid ♀ (4 eggs), 840 + 535 mm, 81 g. Thrashed, gaped, and cloacal discharged while handled, and slid quickly away when released into foliage. at 0947 hr found the Lachesis muta at 530 CES, under the Danaea fern. At 1930 hrs, Mauricio called me to a snake crawling (on ground) into leaves of a Heliconia plant in front of the AC lab, which turned out to be a very large Leptodeira annulata. It thrashed, spread the quadratus, and ejected a smelly slightly cloudy fluid from the cloaca (570 + 152 mm, 95g, no food, gravid female). Pained most of the afternoon and into evening, and I saw several juvenile Bufo marinus while walking back to the cabina after dinner. I wonder if L. annulata is more an edge species than L. septentrionalis - and what about the Bufo? I have found B. marinus here in deep forest, but perhaps it has to move to more open areas to breed ... 8 July At ~0800 walked out to Holdidge 225 to check the Bothrops asper, w/ Rob Colwell and Ann Greig. yesterday Ann and her sister Nancy had twice walked w/in a meter or less of the Ferociapelo w/out seeing it. This morning we met Bev?
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Greene, H. 1987 8 July (continued) a Canadian, who had just seen the snake, but when we all arrived the snake was gone. Bev had seen it 10 minutes earlier, ~2m from where spotted it yesterday. Looked around and found the snake just into a successional plot and loosely coiled, ~1 m from where she saw it. [Diagram] Successional Plot (3) Holdridge (1) (2) 1 = 1st sighting 2 = Bev's sighting 3 = last sightig Started raining as we walked out, and continued all morning. Rain slowed, then ceased in early PM at 1515h. The Lachesis muta was coiled under the Danaea fern at S30 CES; for the first time I have the distinct impression from overall girth and exposed skin between scales that it has eaten. At ~2045h went back w/ 3 students from the OTS course (which arrived today) and found the Lachesis in the
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Green, H. 1987 9 June sunny, partly cloudy, hot by mid-morning. Walked out to 225 Holdidge, and found the Bothrops asper still in dense vegetation, just off the path next to the successional plot ('S' on previous page). I gently lifted a blade of grass for a better look, and the snake moved its head slightly. Judging from Blejaro de Solizano's data, this is too early to be a spent female - so I wonder why she is doing so poorly? If, for whatever reason, she is starving, it is an interesting counterpoint to my notion of large vipers as not generally having intense energy problems. At 09:45h checked the Bothrops mutus at CES 530, and found it under the Danacra fern - and not, today, seeming impressively fullsome. W.r.spect to Leptodeira annulata, I was thinking this morning about the fact that it is a stocky spotted snake, yet repeatedly tried to escape by crawling - a contradiction to Jackson et al.? The point is, it didn't escape that way, whereas a striped or unicolor Mastigodyas would likely have succeeded. Just after lunch (12:40h) I was summoned that there was a large snake on the bridge - ran over to see a Spilotes pullatus descending slowly a Cecropia tree, so I hung over the edge and grabbed it by the posterior.
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Greene, H. 1987 9 July (continued) By the time I stood up it was chewing fiercely on my pants legs. Carried it back to the mesa hole to show students. Even when held by the head it readily tried to bite an approaching finger. When I released it on the ground it inflated the bulbous throat and inflated/vertically flattened the foreparts, and moved them to orient to a person moving nearby. At one point it turned and when I stood up seized the crotch of my jeans. Much of the time I was handling it the snake rapidly vibrated the posterior 200-400 mm of tail. Although I only noticed one small blob of cloacal contents, it ejected a mildly strong and mildly offensive odor, which clung to my T-shirt for sometime hereafter. This morning R.K. Colwell and a group of O.T.S. students were in the Ecological Reserve Swamp, on the Sendero Cantarana, when they observed a Leupetris semiplumbears fly off w/ an Agalychnis callidryas. This was during a dense daytime breeding aggregation of these frogs. 10 July At 8:30h Gene Shoops found a small Bothrops schlegeli (413+70mm, 30g) coiled on a branch at the end of a small limb, ~2 in above damp mud on the W edge of the swamp in
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June 14. 1987 10 July (continued) the Ecological Reserve, beside the Sendero Cantarera boardwalk. I perceived several prominent protrusions suggesting multiple prey items. I caught the snake at ~1400, at which time there was a single large, fusiform bulge. At ~1845 hrs I palpated a bat (16.5g, one wing largely digested) from the snake. Seems that the bat was eaten early this morning, perhaps as it returned to a roost that had previously been located by the snake chemoreceptively. At ~1500 located an adult Haemodipsus mutus at CCC 700 that Joseph Cornell told me about. The snake is ~2m long, healthy and fresh shed looking, and ~20m off the trail behind an old fallen tree. The snake was near the base, lying on a ledge of soil under the edge of the log, quiescent. Rained heavily as we walked back in and out to 530 CES, where the smaller H. mutus is still under the Danasa farm. Both Dave Hardy (who at San Mateo arrived today) and I thought it might be in pre-shedding condition. Rain continued into the night. 11 July Partly cloudy, some sun. Walked around the Camino Circular, and found the H. mutus at CCC 700 as was yesterday, except head had changed positions. Checked the Bothrops asper at Holdridge 225, and found it in
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Henne, H. 1987 11 july same place as before ("3") and still alive - it moved the head slightly when I moved a nearby leaf w/ a snake hooole. Dave Hardy at first thought it dead, for good reason - the mouth slightly ajar, seemingly w/a little dirt in it. at approx 2030h found the lachesis muta at CES S30 out "hunting" approx 30-50cm to the side of its tree, a new position: < old fallen limb 1 = resting spot (Danaba) 2 = "usual" hunting spot 3: new site It's head was aimed at an angle to the rotten limb (3, arrow). 12 july Left at 0800 and walked the CCC, out CC, across the CS and back in on SHO & SOC. The lachesis muta at CCC 700 is in the same place but it's head now is easily visible & foeing out. When I got fairly close for a photo it flinched. Saw cat tracks, possibly Felis pardalis, on the eastern edge of the Sendero El Swampo in two places several tens of meters apart and hardly west - none on the Holdridge, although there were several muddy places where we might have picked them up. Found the Bothrops asper at Holdridge 225 at the same place but a few cm further into the vegetation
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Green, H. 1987 (continued) 12 July and harder to see. I did not disturb it and saw no movement. Walked out the CES to check Lachesis muta at 530m - asleep under the Danaea - and caught a green/listerose Norops capito near the ground on a green bunch supply next to the 200m marker. Partly cloudy, no rain, river way up. 13 July Left at 0800hr w/ Dave Hardy, Jon Tate, David Carr (U. Maryland) and Joe Bernardo (Duke U.). Checked the big Lachesis muta at 700 CCC, and found it concealed under the opposite side of the fallen log (trail side). The Bothrops asper at 225 Ashbridge was dead, limp, and only slightly smelly - few bugs. It weighed 760g, 1530+235mm ? Dissected it late and found general emaciation - no fat, organs and somatic musculature seemingly reduced. There were several large, pale, slender worms on the surface of the lung (saved - acanthocephalans?). Dave found that one mandible had a fracture healing poorly, ie, slippage of the parts possible. We surmise that maybe she starved because of the injury, perhaps exacerbated by the parasites? Earlier, at 0856hr, I grabbed a ~1.6m Pseustes poecilonotus at CCL 450 as it crossed the trail. It tried to crawl, then bit fiercely. Only got the full defensive display by holding it by the tail
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Heere, H. 1987 13 July (continued) while Dave Hardy poked it w/ an umbrella. Then it inflated the neck, spread the quadrates, gaped widely and struck repeatedly. But wherever it connected on the strikes. At 0932 hr grabbed a Dendrophidion percassulinum 30ggs 638, 582+421mm ♀ at SHO 440m - it crawled frantically, seemingly ineffectually, and thrashed and inflated the body when seized. Inflation coused light skin to appear, but not dramatically blue as in D. vinith. Checked the stump on the Sendero Sabalo-Esquira where in ~1982 Manuel Santana and I found 2 Bothrops asper, but no snakes. At ~1980m on that trail we found an adult gravid ♀ B. asper where Gene Schoop spotted her yesterday. Site is a huge free fall that cascades down a steep slope to the trail, which is bounded on the East by the stream. There is a huge pile of sticks (branches) at trailside, and the snake was in a loose coil at ~1.5m about trail and facing it. Dark rich brown, w/ a very yellow head and white chin. During ~10 minutes in which the four of us milled around its only response was an occasional tongue flick. One of the most impressive snake scenes
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There, H. 1987 13 July (continued) I have seen here! Up to this point it had been partly cloudy w/ frequent bright sun, but as we started back ~1020 hr, a hard rain started that didn't really let up til after lunch. 14 July Rained most of the day, so worked in lab. at 1600 hr went to S30 CES and found Lachesis muta under the Danaea fern. Set up Dan's remote photography stuff, only to find that for some reason it wouldn't fire. Started raining at ~1800 hr. At 1837 hr the Lachesis head appeared (by now it was virtually dark), and for 23:56 min 56 sec it crawled out into the area where it hunts, then back into the Danaea, then into the forest ~SE of its site. While crawling it frequently tongue-flicked, pointed its snout at the ground, and turn the head side to side. At least twice it lifted its head up a few cm to inspect low palm leaves. Thinking it would disappear, we caught it. When Dave and Dan went back for the can they caught an Oxyrhopus petola on the trail (~1930 hr, CES) -- said its only response to them was rapid crawling. As for the Lachesis hopefully we had the good fortune to see this snake initiate a site change. An alternative possibility is
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Greene, H. 1987 14 July (continued) that our presence caused it to move, but I think that unlikely because of its behavior (apparent searching, not flight) and the fact I've had no evidence of such effects w/ this Lachesis or others in the past. Can wondered if it was bothered by the rain (water had pooled under the Danaea), but it has rained many times in the past w/out this or other Lachesis moving. 15 July Spent the morning preparing a receiver and transmitter - ch 3, 27.575 (frequency). Temp. calibration (beats/0.0 sec) 26.4 C, 92; 30.4 C, 111; 32.8 C, 124; 33.6 C, 134; 37.0 C, 154. Processed the snake right after lunch: SV 1370 mm, tail 144 mm, 1.8 kg. Snake never got especially riled up, but while we were measuring it protruded and retracted one hemipenis. Just as we finished it spontaneously evacuated a large fecal and uric acid mass, both very wet. Spines of Proechynus (or less likely Heteros) are clearly evident. Less than an hour later we released it on the Danaea fern, and its responses to gentle prodding w/ snake stick were to crawl or to cover its head w/ a coil and elevate and gently sinuously wave the tail, while periodically (>= 3 times) extruding and retracting the hemipenis. Then we walked out to Sendero
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Heere, H. 1987 15 July (continued) Sabolo - Esquina but could not locate the ? Bothrops asper that was on the treefall day before yesterday. (Today was the first day w/ lots of sun in a long time, so I expected to see her). On the way out, on Sendero Oriental, we saw a troop of Ateles, and on the way back a troop (same) and not far away a line of Alouatta, at ~1630hr Beth Nawell pointed out a small brownish slender snake crawling off the trail, so I slapped a hand down as its head went under a leaf - then released it was a very small B. asper and let go fast. Pinned it at midbody 2-3 times and it never struck - uncharacteristic for small Lesciopolos, and I learned a lesson. In the evening heard a talk by a group of Curilha Indians from Panama. 16 July Left ~0820hr w/ Dave and Dan. First checked at CCC 700 and found the big Lachesis muta well under the SE(?) side of the fall tree, head not visible. Walked to ~100 m before the end of the SSO t, look for an adult Lachesis muta that Julie Denbow saw yesterday - we found her flaps but not the snake. Then walked in by way of the LOC & CES, got the receiver, and went back to search for the ? L. muta at CES 530. Soon found it at ~15m N of previous site,
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Greene, H. 1987 16 July coiled up against the overhanging edge of an (continued) old fallen tree and very near a stilt palm as well as several Welfia. I touched it lightly and it flinched, so seems OK. Partly cloudy and sunny until approx 3pm, then intermittent rain into the PM. After dinner Dave, Ian, Feyrer Godinaros (just arrived from Santa Cruz) and I went out to CCC 700 to check the Lachesis muter, then back and out the SOR to the concrete bridge. Much of the time a light rain was falling. Walking in and out the CCC, we saw at least 5 Potos flavus in canopy trees - our attention was drawn to them by croaking sounds (branches breaking?) and we got good views of them locomoting. Twice they were in pairs. The bush-master was not under the fallen tree, and we spent approx 15 minutes in the vicinity without finding it periodically I wondered, especially when bending to peer at some spot and thus unable to watch around me, what it would feel like to be bitten by surprise by that big snake! On the way back on CCC (approx 400?) Feyrer spotted a small adult Dasypus novemcinctus under the boardwalks, frozen at our approach but w/ its tail exposed. He managed to catch it, and we observed an open maggot infested hole (jagged, approx 20-25mm diam)
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Greene, H. 1987 16 July (continued) at the base of its tail - we surmised only a lion or jaguar, could have been made by and that this armadillo will die from the wound. A complicating factor was - a - vis surviving a predator encounter! 17 July at 0830 h checked at 700 CCC again w/out finding the Lachesis muta . Then went to 530 CES and found the one a few m S of yesterday, under the stilt palm that grows around the end of the log. Took polaroids w/ Feyrer's camera. Went to San Jose for the weekend. 20 July Back at La Selva by 1030 h. Learned that Rocio Lopez had found a small adult Lachesis muta at 1700 LOC . She was stepping up onto a log, slipped backward on some withered palm fronds, and bump the snake, which drew back - That was on the 17th. Dave and Dan photographed that snake on the 18th, and people from the GAPS project saw it again on the 19th. Dave and Dan also checked the Lachesis muta at 530 CES, and found it during the day on 17, 18, and 19 and during the night on the 17th & 18th. Bruce Means and his two sons arrived this afternoon for a brief visit, so I showed them that snake at 1600 h. During all day sightings the snake was head down and "sleeping", whereas the two nights its head was "up"
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there, it 1987 20 July (continued) but snake was in the same position. (1930h) Feyner Godino led several of us through the Ecological Reserve swamp and around the Camino Circular. We saw only two Dasypus novemcinctus and a few Eleutherodactylus on the loop, but there were a fair number of frogs in the swamps: Hyla loganae H. elachisora a big ? Smilisca baudinii, several Agalychnis saltator and Gastrothryne picturatus calling. at ~ 2200h I spied an adult Mantidens inornatus ~3m above the boardwalk in a small tree, got it down, and palped out in order of regency an adult H. elachisora, and two adult A. saltator. State of digestion varied from none to only pelvis and hind feet, suggesting that they were eaten at least hours apart - and that such a meal (1 such frog) does not result in a cessation of foraging. Feyner spotted a mammal high in a tree on the N edge of the swamp, and we got a good view of it through binoculars: Caluromys derbianus. 21 July Left at ~0815h w/ Dave, Juan, Bruce and his sons. We walked across the Sendero Cantarano and out the loop, where Dave checked briefly at C/S 700 for the adult Isthmosis muta we watched there a few days ago. Began raining soon after we started up the Southwest Trail. At ~550700, after the 3 Means had passed by, I spotted a yearling
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Greene, H. 1987 21 July (continued) Bothrops asper crawling rapidly off the trail. Turned sideways and bit when pinned w/ my boot. Next we turned south on the LOC and checked the Lachesis muta first spotted by Rocio Lopez on the 17th. Found it coiled and "asleep" at the same site, fully exposed but difficult to see on leaf litter. The snake is <1m W of a large (.5-1m Ø) old fallen log. Once when I was leaning over the log it flinched once, but otherwise we didn't disturb the snake. Walked in on the LOC and CES, and ≈1015hr found the L. muta missing at CES S30. Bruce, Dave and I picked up a receiver and went right out and soon picked up a weak signal, but couldn't get it focused into a sharp beep at first because of interference. As I was slowly walking and searching I stepped inadvertently on a <1m "Philodendron" and as the plant bent over saw a "large yellow snake" - adult Lachesis muta ! - drawing back from my right heel. This new snake is ≥2m ad very fresh looking and yellow; coiled fully exposed between the Philodendrum and a young palm and only a short distance in several directions from old fallen logs. Next located the 1.5m L. muta → w/ the radio, under an abandoned boardwalk plank ≈10m from the large new snake; only edge of a coil
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Heene, H. 1987 21 July (continued) exposed. I am still concerned that something is wrong w/ that snake. The larger snake maintained a head-up alert posture for the next 30 minutes or so of photography, but when I returned ~1400h w/ 4 people for more photographs it was "asleep" and never moved while we were around. Rain ceased in midafternoon, but stayed overcast and cool. By 1900 h there was much clear sky and stars. [Forgot to note that on the afternoon of 16 July Mauricio Quesada caught a Leptophis depressirostris in the lab clearing that had its left 20th subcaudal obviously clipped. The snake was an adult and photographed by Dave and Dan, but I didn't get measurements before it was released.] At 2100 h checked the two Hochenius mutus at 550 CES. The smaller ? was still under the discarded piece of boardwalk plank, but alert. The larger snake had moved ~1m NW (?), out from under its plants to face a large "tip up" of an old fallen log. That snake was in an alert posture, w/ head up over the coil and facing the tip-up. Within seconds of us approaching and shining a light on it, the snake oriented its head to us. Some further thoughts on the initial encounter w/ this snake: I marvel at the way perception of certain aspects of the situation were coupled w/ instant action on my part, prior to full cognition of "it's a bullmaster, etc."!
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Henee, H. 1987 21 July (continued) When I jumped back I ran into Bruce Meers, a big guy, who said I was emanating a cloud of adrenaline that affected him before he fully knew what was happening! Dave says the next thing I did, inexplicably, was to collapse the antenna on the radio I was carrying. The snake was drawing its head back into an S-coil when I saw it, but based on the two previous ones I've seen strike I don't think this one was about to do so - there was none of the exaggerated S-coil or flattened neck seen prior to striking in the others. However, we were all clearly impressed, and tonight Dave remarked about the danger aspect of all this - he has been pondering the 80% mortality rate for 5-6 treated (w/ serum) cases. 22 July Went at 0800 w/ Dave to check the two hatchis inlets at CES S50. The smaller ? is in place under the boardwalk, "asleep." The big one was gone, and >15 minutes of searching failed to turn it up. Before and after lunch I photographed a large? iguana iguana resting on dense "shrub" opposite to the river bridge - probably the same individual I often see sleeping high in a small Caesaria tree nearby. Mostly sunny today, punctuated by a brief shower ~1230h. A visitor saw a long, slender emerald green snake in the Reserve Swamps that sounded like a leptophis ahastulla from his
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June 16, 1987 22 July (continued) description, He was first attracted to a large crown frog (I presume Smilisca baudini) that was hopping on the emergent aeroids, then saw the snake coming and peering after it. This morning Dave Hardy hiked out to LOC 1700 and found the haechsis muta there (
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Hoene, H. 1987 23 July Vicinity of 530m on CES. (continued) Site #4 8.2 m Site #3 40° 14.0m Site #2 12.3m Site #1 Boardwalk N
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Zeaero, 14. 1987 23 July (continued) under a stilt palm. Site #3 is its third resting place, under a piece of discarded boardwalk. Site #4 is where the large adult (''Harito'') was, between two plants (a small palm and a ''Philodendron'') 80 cm apart and 60cm high. It's hunity site is 1m W, and approx 0.5m from Land E 23) or 1.1m high tip-up of an old log. 24 July At approx 0830 hr checked the maleclosus mutus at 550 CES and found it in place and inactive under the plank. Walked back through the station and out SOR to the steps to Rafael's house, where Phil Delrio saw a <1m Bothrops aspes yesterday. The snake had been coiled on leaves on a log, partially hidden under leaves, but was gone this AM. Picked up a approx 1 week old cat scat on a faint trail leading downstream from the house clearing. When I returned to the lab- Orlando presented me with a big female Polycheus gutturosus that he found this morning on a tree beside the river bridge. It has palpable eggs, and gapes and orients when pirded gently. 25 July Partly cloudy and sunny this morning, rain off and on all afternoon. From approx 9-11 walked around taking photos for Carmen Rojas, including out to 200 Holdridge and both Suza Bridge on the CCL. Saw no snakes. At noon Lou Niggio brought me a large and a small cat scat, and Orlando Vages [brought] a large one yesterday - clearly there
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H. H. 1987 25 July (continued) a Felis concolor and/or a Panthera onca in the area recently. Forgot to note that last night ~2050h there was a large, yellowish Tamandua crossing the bridge from south to north. At 1910h, walking back to Cabina #1 from dinner, I found a yearling Bothrops asper crossing the concrete - but my boot two of the three times that I restrained it. Walked out to and around the Arboretum from ~1930-2130h. At 1956h found a Notohipus rugosio in leaf litter near a Hermit swarm, in a pile of branches next to the boardwalk (on the Sendero Sur, before the Arboretum). It was immobile w/ only a few cm of tail and hindbody exposed when Nancy Gieg saw it, and the only response to handling was periodic thrashing alternating w/ rigidity of part of the body. Also along the boardwalk heard branches cracking overhead, and got a good view of a Bassaricyon semicochaste - gray coat, tail not thickly wooly and held well off the limb, and rapid jumping locomotion. On foliage in the Arboretum, saw Agalychnis saltator (2m high, on palm leaf), Eleutherod. fitzingeri (1m, on leaf), and E. diastema (calling from under a vine leaf on a tree trunk). At ~2100h I spotted a Leptophis depressirostris asleep ~4m up a sapling, coiled in foliage above the stream. Only response to
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Freene, H. 1987 25 July (continued) handling in the dark was thrilling and copious cloacal gland secretion, although late indoors it readily gaped and stuck. After we parted, Jan and David found an adult Micrurus alleni crawling under the boardwalk on Senderos Cartagena, just before it hits the water, at 2200 hrs. 26 July Photographed animals this morning. The Polyergus guttatus could switch brown to green w/in seconds, jumped w/out vegetation to the ground from a height of >1m, and could move fairly rapidly at times. I never saw it curl the tail round a branch, but there was certainly contact along its length. Interestingly, when the animal switched to green the tail remained reddish-brown. It repeatedly gaped and extended dewlap when threatened w/ a finger. Phil Davies told me the plant it was on is Helioscaphus (Tiliaceae). SV170, tail 550 mm, 77g. The claws are exceptionally sharp! The Micrurus alleni constantly tried to crawl away rapidly w/ broad curves, but repeatedly exhibited a suite of responses when restrained. If it halted because someone appeared in front, the animal froze w/ head jerked back in a tight, flat S-coil. This appeared to be "tail mimicry" rather that preparatory to striking. If restrained, the body was flattened; the tail was curled slightly and waved, though not especially elevated; and
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Greene, H. 1987 26 July (continued) The head swilling back and forth -- at least twice I saw it bite and briefly hold on to the plastic box of which I restrained it. I did not experience flicker fusion of the bright bands, but repeatedly found it impossible to distinguish head and tail when the snake was moving rapidly. at ~2030 hr Dave Hardy found an adult Bothrops asper coiled w/ head hanging out over the outer body loop, facing the boardwalk and completely out on the cleared trail at CE 5 200. He took photos, then returned for several of us, and when we approached the snake slid into the forest edge. It crawled around a buttressed tree, several times turning to face us w/ an S-coil -- and once this was from under a large hanging palm leaf such that a pursuer would have been ambushed. Movements were frequently jerky, and involved sudden, sliding changes of position and direction. 27 July Left after lunch for San Jose. 28 July Presented seminar (in Spanish) at the Instituto Clodovis Picado. 29 July Montverde, Provincia de Puntarenas, Costa Rica Arrived here ~1600 hr and got a room in the Pension Quetzal, run by Bob Lewis. Carmen Rojas and I rented a Toyota Land Cruiser from the OTS for $200 for the ride, and we needed the
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Greene, H. 1987 29 July Tough suspension for the stretch from the coastal (continued) main highway up to here - a very rough road, with some fine views of the Golfo de Nicoya. Saw several Ctenosaura similis basking on trees on the way up. Visited Patricia and Michael Fosdan briefly before dinner. 30 July After a leisurely wake-up and breakfast, we went to the cloud forest preserve. Along the road I saw several adult Sceloporus malachiticus basking on old dead fallen trees. We walked from x 10:30- 14:30 h, except for a break for lunch at "The Windows" - where there was a spectacular set of views to the Atlantic and Pacific slopes. We couldn't see the coasts because of clouds. Weather alter- nated overcast, thick fog, and sun, but never really rained on us. Only herps I saw were two another species. Shaggy moss, ferns, epiphytes of all types, and liverworts everywhere. Several streams and waterfalls, and even one spring. Overall impression was of more dark green stuff than at lower elevations, and of less exposed dark - there is a virtually continuous, soggy, living layer in this forest. After returning, I photographed an adult Bothrops lateralis that Bob Jewett found on his motorcycle seat next to the pension yesterday. 31 July After breakfast we went down the road
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Heene, H. 1987 31 July past the Pensión Floz-Mar, hoping to see a quetzal. (continued) On either side are cleared pastures w/ numerous the widely spaced in places large forest trees. Overcast. Tried to locate a singing bellbird without success. Finally in quick succession Carmen spotted a ♂ Crocias tricaudulata calling from the crown of a large tree – and we had a fine view out to him because of the road's slope - and I located a ♀ Phaemonachus moquinro in another tree. a fine walk, after which we visit the Fogdens. Left Monteverde after lunch at the Pensión Quetzal, and had a great ride through pouring rain down the hills. It took us six hours to get back to San José because twice the main roads were blocked – once by a huge fresh landslide and once by a fatal car accident. 1 August spent the day in San José. 2 August all the way back to Berkeley - 14 hours, thanks to a miserable layover in Miami.
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Greene, H. 1987 16 August Tilden Regional Park, Contra Costa Co., California I arrived at the miniature steam train ride ~1400h at the request of park naturalist Rachel MacDonald. The people who run the little train had complained of a group of rattlesnakes so close to the tracks that they feared a snakebite and lawsuit. The men (led by Eric Thompson) told me that they are not opposed to rattlers, but felt that these were a danger. Three days ago they saw two spacing upright with each other, presumably male-male combat, and earlier today two adults. We rode the train through oak savanna and chaparral stopping at a rock pile beside the track. It was 3-4 m in diameter, <1m high except for one large boulder, and encompassed a small group of shrubs. There was a pair of Crotalus viridis copulating in the shade of the shrub when I arrived, and the ♀ rattled furiously when I hoisted them into a bucket (next day, not in copula, the male was more aggressive). We moved all the rocks we could, but found no other snakes. The rocks were more than 1 m from any passenger at any
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Arizona, A. 1987 16 August fine, and in my view unlikely to have possibly (continued) caused a bite. I later gave the snakes to Ayako English, who relocated them to East Bay M.H.D. land nearby. 27 August Tucson, Pima Co., Arizona Arrived here ~1900 hr, having left Berkeley in my new Toyota truck yesterday at 1500hr, odometer at 510.6 miles. It is 900 miles from my apartment to the home of D.L. Hardy, where I am staying. 28 August Lunch w/ Howard Lauster at the Desert Museum 30 August attended "shower" for Sylvia Lauster, who will deliver any day now, at the home of Jim & Linda Tarsch (he is a vet, specializes in reptiles). Met Brent Martin, studying Heloderma w/ Jowe, whom I corresponded w/ >10 years ago. 31 August Met Robert Robichaux at the U. of Arizona, my host for the sabbatical month here. He showed me my office space on Tumamoc Hill, introduced me to Paul Martin, etc. After dinner, I went hunted ~1900-2100hrs on the western bajada of the Tucson Mountains and in the Arava Valley. A large thunderstorm in the western sky, but overhead stars and a ~ 1/2 moon. Saw 4 Crotalus atrox (2 juveniles), 1 C. trivirgatus, 1 C. scutulatus, and 1 C. cerastes; and 1 Bufo cognatus.
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Greene, H. 1987 1 September Road hunted x1900-2100 hrs on the western bajada of the Tucson Mountains and edge of the Alva Valley. Got 4 Crotalus atrox (2 juveniles), a small Leptropeltis getulus, and a Bifo alvarius. 2 September Road hunted for x1 hr w/ David Hard in an area SE of Tucson (near the E. part of Saguaro Natl. Monument) and got only a juvenile Rhinocleilus lecontei (“clarus” phase - no red on snake). 3 September Care Creek Canyon, Chiricahua Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona Arrived here x1500 hr - partly cloudy and almost cool. Talked to Barney Tomberlin in Portal and got moved in at the Hardy's house. W/ instructions from Barney I set out before dusk to look for Sistrurus catenatus in an area of “short grass prairie” (desert grassland?) x20 mi. S. of Rodes on Hwy 80. He says the best stretch is from the Rucker Canyon Rd. turnoff (which is 18.5 mi from the State line) to a tree on the right side of the road (which is 6.7 mi from the Rucker Canyon turnoff). I traveled that stretch from x1830-2045 hrs, four trips, and saw: 4 Crotalus scutulatus (1 ad. escaped), 1 C. atrox (1 juvenile, not collected), 1 juv and 1 ad Pituophis melanoleucus (1941 & 1949 hrs, not collected), and 1 ad Rhinocleilus lecontei. The two adult ♂ C. scutulatus were impressively dark brown and gold snakes, immediately reminiscent
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Greene, J. 1987 3 September (continued) of C. viridis. Both were very jumpy snakes: coiling tightly, rattling, and jerking about when approached, and crawling rapidly away when I first tried to hook them into a bucket. One has a well-healed puncture scar at midbody. At 1800 h I found a Tenaspene ornata sitting w/ tail out on the edge of (dirt) State Line Road; it urinated copiously, struggled, and snapped when picked up. After returning to Motel made one circuit up Cave Creek Canyon to the SWRS and back to the Hardy's House, but saw only a Mephitis and two fawns (together), no snakes. 4 September Lunch w/ Wade Sherbrooke. Overcast and cool all day in the canyon, with a shower at SWRS at noon. At 1630 h watched Geocoryx hunting (evidently) on the rock wall behind the Hardy's house, under dense mesquite. The bird hopped rock to rock, pausing every few seconds, motionless except for tilting head as if inspecting the lower branches - and I have seen Crozaurus ornatus on this wall. Went road hunting to the
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Greene, H, 1987 5 September Terrapene ornata in mid-lane w/ head outstretched (continued) It "exuded" a foul-smelling liquid. ~1600h (after a hard shower) drove to SWKS and back w/out seeing anything on the road, and hiked for ~1 hr up the N facing slope at the South Fork turnout. Turned x 8-10 dead agaves, saw nothing. After dinner w/ the Hardys, Barney, and his friend Tony, Dave and I went to the "Sistrums site" and back me -saw an AOR juv Pituophis melanoceus, AOR neonate Crotalus scutulatus, and a well-dead adult Thamnophis marciarus at the same spot on the road where Barney and I got 3 two nights ago.
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Aere, H. 1987 25 November La Selva Biological Station, Heredia Province, Costa Rica arrived in San Jose the 21st, and here $11.00 P.M. today. a new season for me - in the capital, mostly sunny slips (
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Greene, H. 1987 25 November moderately light coil, next to an old small (continued) fallen trunk or limb. The head is ~75-85mm wide. I checked her three times w/ various people and took photographs between 1330-1400 hr, and she never so much as flicked a tongue. at 1743 hr, more or less dark, her head was up and over the outer coil, and she turned slightly to me when the light hit her. At [illegible] 1907 hr she was ~1m S of the resting spot, on ground between two limbs of the fork of the fallen log, facing ~W and alert. at 2107 found an active Imantodes cenchoa ~2.3 m high in vine tangles among banana plants, just S or E of the Suria Bridge (on the old station side, 8.2g, 53+23 cm, cf.♀). At 2120 hr another Imantodes cenchoa a few meters from the first, at ~same height (16.4g, 65+27cm, cf.♀). Both snakes were ascending vines slowly when I saw them. When touched each crawled upward. Only response to handling was to squirm and to release a strong, sharp odor. at 2137 hr the ♀ Bothrops asper was still alert at the same position, undisturbed by several photos. Between 2107 - 2120 I checked the Cantarana Research Swamp, but couldn't quite get to the boardwalks because of water over the trail. Several kinds of frogs calling. Hard rain here on the 21st I'm told, and some this afternoon. Night clear.
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Cheene, It. 1987 26 November left at approx 0810 w/ Leslie Saul and Norman Gershwim (from San Francisco Zoo), went out the Near Topps to Camino Central 1800, then back across the El Suampo and in on Holdridge Trail for lunch at approx 1215 hrs. Sunny but not too hot. At 0727 hr I had checked the female Bothrops asper on CES, found her back in the 'resting spot' with head facing approx NE (as opposed to SE yesterday at rest). Saw various Norops, Ameira, and a few Eleutherodactylus on the trail - plus of course Dendrobates pumilio. At 0950 hr Norm spotted an adult Mastigodryas melanolomus motionless on the trail, w/ head up, after I had walked over it (1700 Camino Central, 87g, 73 cm + 24.6 cm, female). When seized, she struck repeatedly, spun rapidly about the long axis, and exuded a mild must. I palpated the head and fore-jaw of a Sphenomorphus chersie (swallowed tail-first, approx adult size) from her. At 1020 hr we found a Lachesis muta at CC 1800, as reportedly seen yesterday by Jose Miguel Alvarez. The snake looks to be approx 1.4 m total length, and is coiled under a dry leaf but easily visible, with head facing the trail. It is approx 1.5 m from the base of an adult (fruit pods) Welfia palm. No sign of awareness of us during photographing; might have a food lump. Saw tracks 1 at least
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Greene, H. 1987 26 November (continued) two felids in the swamps, at least one large enough to be Panthera onca or Felis concolor. At approx 1200 hrs we heard a crashy in a banana tree beside the sidewalk and saw the largest, darkest fastest wild Nasua narica I have ever seen - it clambered to the ground, then ambled off leisurely w/ tail up (this was just E. of the [illegible] Bridge). At approx 1330 hrs took pictures of the ♀ Bothrops asper - she still in same place. At 1729 hrs - still barely light, even in forest, she is out alert in the "hunting site". At 2009 hrs she is in the same spot - both nights head has been in same orientation to surroundings and the neck is in a sharp S-coil. At 2150 hrs, a Micrurus microstictus crawling at moderate speed off the trail at CES O (forest edge). As soon as I gently restrained it w/ my foot the snake thrashed, bit repeatedly, tail displayed, and crawled very rapidly. When I gained the head in my hand it tried to spin, muskled, and repeatedly poked w/ the tail spine. Very hard to hold. Tail was often in a loose ring w/ tip overlapping, but never in a tight perfect coil. I was impressed by how hard it was to discern its bodily orientation, and how the tail spine was a "threat" - first reaction was to jerk away from it (??). ♀ Bothrops asper still hunting at approx 2200, not disturbed. Today was Thanksgiving, and
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Greene, H. 1987 26 November Tonight we had a fantastic meal: sheets for a (continued) "white table cloth," red wine, turkey, excellent dressing, mashed potatoes, brown gravy, and apple and pumpkin pies. Everyone ate 'til they groaned. 27 November At 0828 hr as I walked to up in x 2m of the F Bothrops asper, an Ameiva festiva (small adult) spooked and ran over her. The big snake jerked her head alert and I quickly slipped back to the trail, hoping she wasn't disturbed enough to move sites - she is back in the "resting place." At 1130 hr she is still there. At 1148 hr Roberto Cordero showed me a Leptophis depressirostris crawling in grass in front of Cabina #1 (mine). He said it had advanced on him, but he didn't notice the mouth open. When I seized the snake, it spun several times, attempted to crawl away fast, and thrashed laterally, but never gaped or bit. It deflected while being measured (65g, 695+400mm). At 1627hr the B. asper was still at rest - forest shady, but still easy to see. I watched her from 1713-1745hr but she never moved, although it was quite dark by the time I ran out of tolerance for the mosquitoes and went to dinner. I was surprised to find her still "resting" at 1955hr. At x 2010hr Jerry Rovner (Ohio U., spiders) called me to a F Basiliscus
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Greene, H. 1987 27 November plennifrons asleep at 2m upon a Heliconia leaf (continued) in front of the main lab (115g, 151+494mm). She struggled, gaped, elevated tongue, and tried to bite when seized. 28 November Sick all day, it's have been several other people. Upset stomach, headache, weak and sore muscles. The ? Bothrops asper was coiled in the "resting" place at 1100hr and 1550 hr, but not visible at either site at 2100hr. Where is she? Not pleasant looking for her at night... Beth Newell saw a tricolored Micrurus (?) by her cabana after dark. 29 Novemr Feel better this morning. At 0750 hr I found the ? Bothrops asper back in her resting site. When I moved leaves near her head, she jerked her head up and in my direction and froze - no tongue flicks, tail movements, etc. I slipped away, and returned at 0757 to find her quiet again. From at 1030-1300 hr walked the CCL and CCC with Carmen Rojas, at at 1330 I found the B. asper at her "resting" site, then walked to 500 m on CES and back, to 500m SOC and back, and checked the B. asper again at 1500hr. Walked in the Cantarana swamps from 2100-2130h and saw a few Hylla leguayi and one small golychmic colidryas, and photographed some spiders, including an arboreal tarantula.
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Greene, H. 1987 29 November As we headed for the CES, I dropped in the back (continued) door of the "new lab" to tell Jenny Korner about the spiders, was in there < 2 minutes, and when I came out ran right into an adult ♀ Bothrops asper crawling across the door mat by the boot rack! Hooked her onto the smooth parch, then required ≈10 minutes to get her into a trash can. She changed directions rapidly, often sliding a body length or more in an instant. At least once she crawled more than a meter at me. Several times she advanced up my book, and once I had to drop it. Never vibrated the tail, never gaped, and never struck. Always seemed very alert, nervous, ready to go at me. At 2150 I failed for the second night in a row to locate the huge ♀ B. asper on CES. 30 November At ≈0710 I spotted the big Bothrops asper, coiled under the fallen log, less than 1 m from her site 2. She was also there at 1400hr (head has changed position), 1650hr, and 1945hr. Between ≈1100-1200 I photographed Iguanas in a tree by the N. end of the bridge, a big orange ♂ basking and occasionally head-nodding on a large branch, and a smaller (but larger than
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Greene, H. 1987 30 November "yearling" Iguana (♀?) in a bush above (continued) him. Second Iguana never moved, except to gape w/ raised bright red tongue (very obvious from a distance) after sometime in direct bright sun. After lunch, the smaller was not to be seen and the large one was somehow attached vertically to a slender branch in dense dry foliage. As I crossed the bridge, noticed numerous Rhinoderma looking on logs. There is a large tree w/ log jam around its crown remnant, extending from the south bank to about midstream. It is ~200 m downstream from the bridge and has been there some time. At 1300 hr today there were 4 Rhinoderma, a lutra longicaudus, and an adult Iguana on this logjam - the big lizard on the outer most limb and thus in mid-river. No evidence that it or the others regarded each other as anything - wasn't it the right habitat for an attack? At ~1700 Beth Newell was on the phone and stunned to see a large calf in the clearing near the short trail that goes to the arboretum! Checked the Cantarana Swamps at 2030 hr but heard only an occasional frog. Very bright sky, no rain in days.
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Greene, H. 1987 1 December Absolutely cloudless blue sky as I walked over to breakfast. The big orange Iguana was still suspended (precariously?) vertically on a branch w/ heavy foliage. The adult ? Bothrops asper was under the log (site 3) at 1045 hrs. Between 0700-0800 hrs an adult Meynii alleni was found near the Comedor/Reception building on the north side of the river. This snake died morning of 2 December 1987, with palpable evidence of broken back, preserved, HWG 17007. Checked Bothrops asper F after breakfast and after dinner and she was under the log (site #3) both times. Going to lunch I noticed that there are two orange iguanas in the tree, the one mentioned earlier identifiable by its slightly regenerated tail tip -- the other is really large. From ~1315-1700 hrs walked with Rebecca Butterfield and her husband David to the Rio Peije and up it for a few hundred meters. We saw numerous tracks of small felids, and I collected 6 scats, most or all of a large felid -- these varied in age from 1 very fresh to very old. They showed me where twice in one day they saw an adult Caiman crocodilus and her young together. This was at the bridge over a little stream that crosses the Sendero El Atajo. Both times, she F slid in and swam upstream then waited, while the ~30 youngsters scattered among vegetation downstream. At ~1630 hrs
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Greene, H. 1987 1 December I saw a Lepidolepharis xanthostigma crawling in (continued) leaves on the trail. 2 December Another sunny day, although fog at dawn. The ? Bothrops asper was still at Site 3 after breakfast. She was also there at mid-afternoon and after dark. Alejandro Solerano arrived this afternoon, and after dark we walked the Sendero Oriental out and back w/out seeing anything. Orlando Vargas brought me an Enulius selaterii he found DOR in La Guarin. At ~1900 h Rebecca Butterfield discovered a freshly dead juvenile B. asper (HW6 1701) on sidewalk by the Villa Esperanza, apparently stepped on unseen by someone. Alejandro and I killed and pickled the big B. asper I caught 29 November, because the Clarks preferred it not be released near the building or observator. 3 December Alejandro and I left before 0800 and walked out the CCC, Camino Central, Sendero Sur, and back on the Oldridge, arriving at the station ~1130 h. At 0828 h we caught a juvenile Mastigodryas melanonus (?300+100 mm, ?g) crawling off the trail into leaves - twisted about long axis, thrashed, and bit repeatedly. At 0900 h we found the Lachesis muta at CC 1800 in exactly the same place I saw it 26 November. Three people checked this spot on the 27th without seeing the snake, but I suspect it was there. It is a young f, 1260+123 mm, 950 g. Very calm until after we handled her, then quite brava. She crawled slowly w/ the body extended, head in a tight S-
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Sheene, H. 1987 3 December coil and antennal tibia greatly inflated. No tail (continued) vibration. Struck twice. We steered her back into the cavity under the leaf. I allowed as how since the only two trail segments I'd never walked at La Selva were Linderos Sur to Holbridge and back and since surely the distance wasn't much greater ... in fact, the Linderos Sur in that part is hill after hill, all very steep! Just before one reaches the corner of the property (which requires one last little hill) the trail crosses the Quelzada Esquina, a likely look spot for Atelopus if there are any at La Selva. The outermost +/- 1.5 km of Holbridge are also made up of steep trails, then there's 200 m of bad mud and no bridges. I fell into mid-thigh once and narrowly missed being skewered on an old trail stake. We saw a dark animal bolt across the Holbridge almost certainly an Eira barbara. We saw a lutra longicaudus dive in the Quelzada Esquina where it crosses Holbridge at +/- FHO 1000. Saw several Felis sp. tracks in the mud on that trail. Started raining +/- 10:30 h and rained off and on the rest of the day, never hard. The big ? B. asper was still in the same spot after dark. We saw almost no frog activity in the Cantarara Swamp, but caught a neonate Iurartodes carchon resting coiled on a leaf +/- 30 cm above forest floor at +/- CKS /50 (1.7 g, 236+96 mm).
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Greene, H. 1987 3 December Only response to handling was to squirm, crawl rapidly, (continued) and eject a drop of liquid (clear) and a tiny crumb of uric acid from the vent. I could detect no odor. At ~2300 hr Deborah Clark caught a juvenile Clelia clelia (482+101mm, 26.5g) in front of their house on the sidewalk. Its only response to handling was to crawl and squirm, and eject and odorless liquid from the cloaca. 4 December Rained off and on all day. At ~0800 hr Alejandro and I caught the big ? Bothrops asper without much difficulty - she seemed not especially alert and simply dashed here and there in the dense groundcover around the logs, never stilling. Pinned her twice, once to put in the trash can and once to measure her (2.15 Kg, 1610+220 mm - see below). After the second find there was blood in her mouth, which we assumed was some trivial cut from a fang. When released she crawled under the log and seemed OK. At ~1100 I located her stretched out nearby, with the head turned astwardly and a fly on it, but she turned toward me when I touched the tail. At ~1400 hr I found her in the same place, dead, slightly stiff. Re-measured her as 1721+225 mm, substantially larger than we thought. Pickled her. Skin appeared "old," so we wonder if we aggravated some existing condition or simply fatally injured her? At night I noticed a Hyla elachochora eating bugs on the outside of the bathroom window - attracted
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Heene, H. 1987 4 December there by the light inside. Not much frog activity in (continued) the swamp (Cantacora) despite the rain. 5 December At ~0800 Beth Newell and Roberto Gidero saw a Spilota pullatus in grass beside the walk at Villa Esperanza, which crawled up a nearby sapling at forest edge and froze on a horizontal link. As soon as I seized it the snake vibrated the tail and struck and thrashed powerfully (680g, 1540+5/0 + tip missing). When released ~3 m from forest edge it crawled rapidly into the woods. Did not fully inflate throt during handling, but body was always inflated when I held her (?). Saw only Hyla elzacata and another small hybrid in the Cantacora Swamp, and a large crab in the water. 6 December Lots of rain, all day. Only walk was with Carmen Rojos out the Sendero Occidental and back - saw nothing. 7 December At 0627 hrs, on the way to breakfast, there was an Euisa carbara behind cabina #1, perhaps after print on the ground. It moved quickly into the forest as we approached. Walked out and through the arboretum from ~0730-0830 hrs. At 0757 hrs a Mastigodryas melanotonus was crawling rapidly in leaf litter beside the trail (2285+83 mm, 6g). It thrashed and bit repeatedly (hangson), and I palpated a lizard egg from it. When released it assumed an elevated S-wail and struck rather than crawl away. Today is sunny, clear, warm. Next I photographed!
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Greene, H. 1987 7 December a Bradypus in a small Geocapia near the south (continued) end of the bridge, over the river (occurs to me that this might be an especially safe place for it to sleep). Saw three Iguana iguana in vegetation & trees near north end of bridge -- a large orange- spined male alone, and the male w/ partly regenerated tail along with a (the?) green smaller (? ?) animal about 2 m away. The large submandibular scales of the males are always easily visible, &d they often have the snout elevated. From =?430-1600 I walked the Senderos Oriental and Occidental, but saw nothing. 8 December Sunny all day, no rain. At 1007h Jorge Vega (brother of Gerardo) showed me a spider eating an anole, ~2 m up the trunk of a spiny palm in front of the main (1.4g) lab. The spider was an adult Cupiennius getazi F (file J. Rovner, Ohio University). The lizard was an adult ? Norops limifrons (41+88mm, 1.15g, non-gravid). Lizard was still struggling weakly when I found it, but the spider seemed to be easily holding on. Jerry told me he recently saw a Nephila claripes eating a lizard here too, and a Cupiennius eating a frog. At 1930h Deborah Clark found an adult ? Micrus migoirectus (the one I saw earlier? I don't think so...) on the sidewalk in front of Cabina # 3. When touched it crashed rapidly into the grass, and when pinned it thrashed the body, thrashed the tail more rapidly -
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Freese, lt 1987 8 December coiling and uncoiling but never holding a "ring," (continued) When handled and palpated it twisted violently, withdrew the posterior and repeatedly "pricked" me with the tail spine, and expelled a strong smell. Crawled rapidly away when released. 9 December The guard reported a Bothrops asper adult the last few nights along the sidewalk to the River Station, so I spent ~30 minutes after breakfast looking for it without success. Saw only a juvenile Nops capito. Overcast. Going to San José today to celebrate Carmen's birthday. 10 December Instituto Clodomiro Picado, Costa Rica Spent the day here but didn't take any photographs because the shutter on my camera locked and I stupidly thought it was broken - late proved to be only a bad connection w/ the battery! Saw a Dipsas articulata said to probably be from Puerto Viejo de Sarapiquí. Very slow to react, but with some prodding it assumed a rigid, exaggerated "viper" pose, with quadratoles expanded (NB: does this occur in Sibon? Seen occasionally in Ninia - nice example for phylogenetic analysis). An Erythrolamprus minutus from an unknown locality (with a bright orange nape band) body flattened, hid head, thrashed elevated coiled tail. Another behaved similarly, w/ the addition that it's hemisperes were both partially held erected during the tail display. Also, an enormous
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Greene, H. 1987 10 December (continued) Xenodon rabdocephalus that was very aggressive - striking w/ wide open mouth out of its cage. 11 December La Selva Biological Station, Prov. Heredia, Costa Rica Returned today by O.T.S. vehicle. This morning Orlando Vargas encountered an adult Lachesis muta coiled on the north side of the trail at ~870m on the Sendero Suampo. At ~1400 I walked out to it with Feynner Godinas, Deborah Letourneau, and two friends of theirs, Laura Harriet and Judy Appel. We found the snake in a loose coil at the edge of the trail (not actually on it), with head resting on an outer loop and possibly alert. I estimate its length as 1.7m - adult but not large. Afterwards we returned by way of the Senderos Suampo and Goldridge, in moderate rain all the way. Stopped for a swim at the waterfall, and I started to climb out the first time the rope broke and I fell butt first on Judy's head - a first for us both! As we were clambering about in surprise, Feynner swam up with a large adult ♂ Norops skloopus caught on wet rock face beside the falls, so the five of us had an impromptu lesson on anoles while chatting - teeth and dog paddling. Finally pulled out with some difficulty. 12 December at ~0645 I left with Renaldo Aguilan and Vivien Solis to see the Lachesis muta at S. Suampo 870, but it was gone. I searched surroundings w/out seeing it. Gave an hour lecture in Spanish to the workshop on environmental education.
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Greene, H. 1987 13 December J. Bunner brought me a neonate Notropis nigrosis that he found this morning exposed on the ground in leaves, near the sidewalk to the River Station, just into the woods from the new laboratory (105+50 mm, 0.8g, umbilical scar present). The ground color is a brighter light yellowish orange than I have seen in other specimens. When he seized the snake it went semi-rigid, such that he thought it dead. When I restrained it, the snake vibrated the whole tail slowly, alternated squirming wriggling, and emitted a strong odor after several seconds of handling. At 2105 hr his student, Renee, (see 17 December 1987) called me to an Oxyrhopus petola crawling under the stairs of Cabina #2 (12g, 375+82 mm). When handled later for photography, this snake thrashed in place and waved the thrashing (not looped) tail, stopped abruptly at times, and emitted a foul odor - overall effect moderately like a coral snake. 14 December At approx 1400h David Clarke brought me a neonate Corallus annulatus, found by a cleaning man on a rooftop of Cabina #2 (465+92 mm, 18.5g, umbilical scar present). When handled it only crawled normally, occasionally pulling the head back into a striking coil, and twice half-heartedly gaped and/or struck at my fingers. During the day someone left an Diantodes cervina in a bag on my desk (10.5g, 603+261) - only reaction to handling was frantic crawling and emission of a very foul odor. From approx 1930-2100 hr walked the Sendero
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Greene, H. 1987 14 December Occidental w/ Fayner, Delrah, Laura, and Judy. Saw two (continued) Potos flavus high in trees, lots of tiny Hyler and lots of Eleutherodactylus diastema calling (today was sunny and simply very clear - lots of stars, but we had a hard rain @ 0530h). At 2015h an adult Dromadodes inornatus, frozen as it crawled up an aerial stem from a fallen log, ~1.5m above the ground. Joz was in dense second growth beside trail, amidst fernsliods, vines, etc. (707 + 115 + ? (tip missing) mm; 36g). Only reactions to handling were crawling, thrashing, and emission of a mild odor. At ~2100h I spotted a f Norops capito (82+135mm , 12.5g, ova palpable but small). She was on a leaf ~20cm above the ground in forest, and struggled, gaped w/ tongue elevated, and bit when held. 15 December As I crossed the bridge from breakfast at ~0645h I noted an adult m Bradypus variegatus in a Cecropia tree just W. of the bridge on the S. bank of the Rio Puerto Viejo - I saw a sloth (same?) there yesterday afternoon, and have seen a snake of similar size there at least 6 times (days) since arriving here in November. When I returned at ~0920h I saw the sloth move out a limb and eat fresh-looking fruit. At ~0930h I spotted a lutra longicaudus in the middle of the main limb of the large fallen tree that extends N-ward into the river ~200m downstream. At times the tter lay on its side, evidently to groom, as I saw the head placed against the rump, shoulder
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Here, 11. 1987 15 December and inguinal region. The latter appeared more (continued) pinkish and slightly swollen, causing me to wonder if the animal is a ?. It then made several complete circles on the limb, pressing its chin and chest lower than the hindquarters - scratching, marking, both, or what? From time to time it purred upstream w/ head and foreparts raised, at which time the distinctly lighter throat (and chest?) was very evident (social signal?). It eventually stretched out against another horizontal limb, facing into the sun and apparently basking. Before settling down it once abruptly moved to a limb that forked upward basal to the main limb, turned and in some manner lifting the tail - defecating, urinating, mating, or what? The other remained visible for approx 10 minutes, then abruptly disappeared into the water. Carmen and I started to walk S. off the bridge and saw an adult male Bradypus variegatus climbing the bare trunk of the Cecropia at approx 2x normal (i.e., compared to previous observations) speed. At first I thought the first sloth was ascending again after an unsuccessful down, but now saw it at the top of the tree, suspended under a leaf. The second sloth ascended the tree continuously, and quickly reached the first animal without deviating on any side branches. As it arrived it reached for the other w/
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Heene, H. 1987 15 December (continued) a forelink and they began grappling - soon within seconds a writhing mass of sloth arms and legs, all accompanied almost from the instant of first contact by series of sharp, short, high-pitched cries, coming from one or both of the sloths. Within 15 seconds, the first was hanging by hindlimbs and the second was pulling or falling free from the link. They were suspended as such for a few seconds before the second broke free with the first still swinging at it w/ forepaws. The second descended the tree continuously at approx 3x "normal" speed and disappeared in vegetation from which the Cecropia emerges over the river. When the second broke free, the first hesitated a few seconds, then descended the link rapidly (this as the second was still in view) to the crotch, then veered out a link over the river and began to feed. When I crossed the bridge for lunch there were two sloths in the tree. I had the strong impression the "intruder" saw the "resident" before I first spotted it going up the trunk. The speed of movement was especially impressive, and no more than 2 minutes were passed between when I first saw the intruder and its exit; and the encounter ended at 09:41 hrs. 16 December At 0830h I located a approx 1.6m? Bothrops asper
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Greene, K. 1987 16 December (continued) at SOR 830m, ~80m past the big "bat tree" Diplax that Feyner Godivas encountered last inlet. He saw her alert and coiled out on the trail, whereas now she is in a tight coil under surface green vegetation just off the cleared trail and a few cm from a small tree. There is a large treefall ~3m away. The head is down and in (see photos), more like is typical of Lachesis. I returned in a rain at ~2030h w/ Carol Farneti of Partidge Films, and found the snake out "hunting," about 25 cm from the base of the small tree and in the cleared trail, facing the boardwalk. Alert - turned and tongue-flicked when in light. At 2048h, as we returned over the same route, I found a ~1.3m Bothrops asper at SOR 220m. The snake was in a moderately tight coil, w/ head and neck in S-coil pointed at the boardwalk. Caught a gravid P Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri near the lab in wet grass after darks (SV45 mm, 6.5g). 17 December Walked out SOR and around the CCC-CCN loop w/ Carol. Missed a small adult Mastigodryas melanolomus as it dashed off the trail at ~CCL 700, 0919h. I slammed my left forearm onto a spiny palm trying to catch it. Couldn't find either Bothrops asper from last night on the SOR. At 1514h I found a Leptophis ahaetulla lying motionless on the cement floor under my cabina (♀ 820+515mm, 66.5g)
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Greene, H. 1987 17 December The snake thrashed, spun, struck, bit, gaped (continued) w/ wide open mouth, and emitted a foul odor when seized. When later released in a sapling it slid deliberately up and out of sight. Palped from it the remains of a hybrid, cf. Smiliacea, w/ next to heel of 40mm. It had faint crossbars on the thighs, which had their posterior surfaces unicolor and separated from the dorsum of the thigh by a sharp border that becomes a white line across and over the anus. Frog had been swallowed head-first. Examined faces of Azylobus pelota collected 13 December, and found only many small reptile scales that I took to be Ameiva festiva. At 1600h David Clark caught a Rhodiniaea decorata ? on the sidewalk by my cabina (253+50+?mm, 7g). When handled it squirmed, opposing repeatedly the red ventral colors, and emitted a very foul odor. I palped 3 pieces of tail of a Sphenomorphus chesnei, which fit each other perfectly. At 1950h in a light rain I found a neonate Leptolius nebulosus ~1m above ground on a broad leaf, next to the sidewalk near my cabina. It squirmed and smelled slightly, but no biting or gaping; when I palped 2 tiny transfixing, unidentifiable frog heads (cf. hybrids?), swallowed tail-first (snake 4.6g, 27H+16lmm, distinct umbilical scar). At 2026h, near the turnoff
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Greene, H. 1987 17 December (continued) To "Rafael's House" on the SOR, spotted an adult Leptodactylus pentadactylus. When we stepped closer, I could see something bloody protruding ~30 cm from it's mouth - and for a moment I thought about the possibility I had somehow stepped on it and this was the tongue, yet how could it be so long? At that point the frog began regurgitating, and as I seized the prey it finished vomiting and hopped out of sight. The dead prey was a ? Imantodes cenchoa (605+291mm, 19g, HWG-1705), with at least one spinal fracture and a large piece of skin ripped at midbody and intestine protruding vertically. The snake seemed dead, but most of its tail was coiled tightly around a stick ~20x2 cm - probably the only reason the frog hadn't already swallowed it when we arrived. At 2039h I met an adult ? Bothrops asper crawling down the muddy trail by the big Diplenyzs tree at SOR 750m. She froze briefly in the light, crawled another few meters down slope, then turned W into the forest. All crawling was rectilinear w/ the body almost straight, and the snout was frequently tipped downward as she tongue-flicked the litter. I held my snakestick over and parallel to the snake, and hardly estimated total length at 1.7 - 1.8 m. Because of apparently greater girth, I don't
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Greene, H. 1987 17 December think this is the same snake I saw yesterday only (continued) ≈ 80 m away, but she is very similar in color pattern and hue (very yellow). 18 December On the way back from breakfast, ≈ 0730 h, saw 3 green ibises (Mesembrinibis cayennensis) perched on the downstream logjam in the Rio Puerto Viejo. I was impressed by their dark iridescent feathers, blue-green legs (almost lacquer-like from a distance), and long light curved bill. At one point two gathered and engaged in two bouts of bill “whacking”. Eventually, one at a time but within less than a minute of each other, they flew low across the water to the north bank and disappeared from our view. I could see clearly a fresh pile of oller stick on the big emergent log right under the bridge – so bright reddish and irregular in texture as to look like a flower. Clearly like others I’ve inspected, filled w/ crustaceans. As we watched, John Blake told me he once saw an iguana iguana swim leisurely across the river here, sculling with its tail. Carol Fasrati and I walked the CES & CEN then out to the end of the SOC but saw nothing but a few Norops. Rained most of the morning, and almost seemed cool. By noon the river was so high that the log under the
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Herrera, H. 1987 18 Decembe[r] bridge was invisible and the log jam almost (continued) submerged. David Clarke showed me a big ? Brolypus variogatus right next to the bridge, and many photos were taken. After lunch there was intermittent sun and I could see a large ? Iguana iguana on each bank of the river and opposite sides of the bridge - I'd guess 75-100m apart. They were each very easily visible to me, and I wonder how far apart they can see each other? Rain again in the Valverde afternoon. Jose Miguel Alvarez brought me a Bothrops asper that he found on the CCC, and which was "muy bravo" (28.5g). Walked to the end of SOR and back w/ Carol Farneti and Carmen Roldan - saw 1 Agalychnis saltator and several Hyba elaeochroa in the Cantarona Swamp, and at least 4 adult Leptodactylus pertadactylus along the SOR. At 2032 h we found a small Smartobas conchoa ≈ 0.8m above ground beside the SOR, near the turn-off to "Rafael's House" (3.9g, 424+190mm). When first discovered, the snake was extended upward at a steep angle, such that ≈30cm was in space. After gaining the next stem, it hung out over a fleck green leaf and tongue-flicked its surface without any actual contact or movement of the leaf. 19 Decembe[r] Rained off and on all last night and this mornin' - at times very hard. After breakfast there was sporadic sun as I crossed the bridge. There
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Greene, H. 1987 19 December was a large ♀ Bradypus griseus in the Caesopia (continued) tree on the south bank - and watching it I am now sure the ♂ I watched earlier was eating the new, red leaves - not fruit. The river is still up, but I saw 2 sun grebes (Helioznic fulica) downstream near the river's edge, in the muddy water. There were at least 4 adult iguanas on the NW bank -
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Freere, H. 1987 19 December elaeochroa, a few Agalychnis saltator, and a single (continued) Smilisca baudinii calling. I found an short-tailed inornatus (610+253mm 19g) x 3m over the east end of the boardwalk, crawling down a very slender, deadened link, with neck & body extended straight along link. Palped from it a freshly ingested Hyla elaeochroa, swallowceel tail first, 1.8g (pickled). The snake responded to handling by squirming and emitting a foul odor. At 2140h, in a low bushy tree near the west end and just north of the boardwalk (same tree from which last summer I retrieved an L. inornatus containing three frogs), I found a large F L inornatus (43g, 700+285mm). It was in a loose coil, w/ head and neck possibly extending back up into the tree, at the end of a leafy branch and x 2m above the water. From it I palped a gravid F A. saltator that had been swallowed head-first, 60mm heel to anus, >5g. Response to handling was squirming, emitting a foul odor (this accompanies ejection of a viscous liquid and a small quantity of uric acid), and pulling the head into an S-coil w/ quadrates spread- very reminiscent of Dipsas sp. No strikej - only response to additional poking was crawlj. We found a juvenile Hyla rupitela on a broad leaved plant x 1m above ground, near the sidewalk into the swamps.
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Greene, H. 1987 20 December Still raining off and on this morning! At 0656 h a workman showed me a juvenile ? Bothrops asper in wet grass beside the sidewalk just north of the bridge, but it crawled rapidly into the vegetation. Rained all day and night. There was a Christmas party, complete with "discomovil" - a disc jockey with sound system- and attended by many local ticos and their families. At 2200 I went to the Cantarana Swamps to release an Anartoides inornatus and found four more! Rain was so hard I had to take two back to lab to process them (wouldn't reach the others, etc., because they were in the off-limits area). There was a huge chorus of Hylla elachistoa , plus a few each Agalychnis saltator and 1t. microcephalus , a Smilisca bandini , and several very loud Gastrothrype pictiventris - the latter calling from in water. At 2205 h, an L. inornatus ~1m above water in a tangle of leafy vegetation (640+241 mm, 25.7g); has a healed ventral scar at #ventral scale #50. It squirms and emits a foul odor - in fact, as with all of this species I've handled, when first touched the cloaca is prolapsed and gaped while a little fluid and uric acid is expelled. Palped 4 Hylla elachistoa , 3 recently swallowed headfirst w/ weights of 1.8, 1.8, and 2.0g; and one swallowed tail-first of which only the head remains. At 2240 h I saw an adult (~maximum size) L. inornatus
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Greene, H. 1987 20 December crawling very slowly in some broad leaved plants (continued) that arise from a large stump, such that the snake was ≈1.6 m above water. This snake I watched until ≈ 2253 hr, and it crawled continuously over and between leaves. It moved over a leaf w/ head and neck on the leaf, seemingly sweeping and not avoiding contact as in D. cendua - my impression was that it was behaving (with) Leptodeira septentrionalis, and using the extensible neck to bridge gaps but not to search without touching leaves. The tongue was protruded frequently. At 2055 hrs, an L. irianus ≈0.8 m above water in dense leafy tangle (small leaves), crawling slowly (741+283 mm, 37.3 g). Reacted to handling by squirting, cloacal prolapse, and emission of a foul (nauseating) odor. Palped two Hyla elachroa, freshly swallowed head first (these were cf. A. saltatoris) with a number of fresh green, jelly-less eggs (2.1, 2.2g). At 2315 hr I could no longer see the second snake, but found a fourth, ≈½ adult size, ≈30 cm over water among stems of the large aquatic-emergent plants. Squirmed and emitted foul odor when handled, stomach empty. Raining very hard now, and seemingly the harder it falls the harder the frogs sing! 21 December cloudy with hints of sky as I walked to breakfast- and two♂Iguanas iguana already visible although it's overcast. By 0800 hr there is bright sun.
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Greene, H. 1987 21 December at 0955h I was called to an adult leptophis (continued) depressa onis approx 2m above ground in a litch at the clearing edge, in words. It was immobile, started to crawl when I reached fruit, and thrashed, spun, and gaped once briefly when seized. But my leg as I palped a frog from it. Snake 698+407 mm, 58g. The leptodactylus pentadactylus was only a few cm distal to the snake's head and made feeble movements when touched (2.25g, HWG 1722); swallowed tail-first. Left for San Jose at 1300h. 28 December Returned to La Selva approx 1100h, after a week in San Jose w/ Carmen Rojas and her family for Christmas. In my absence the little Bothrops nasutus bit and killed the Corallus annulatus and Oxyrhopus petola, among seven snakes with which it was caged. After dark on the 25th, Jenny Rover encountered an Oxyrhopus petola on the sidewalk near the main lab that rapidly climbed approx 3m up a small tree in its attempt to escape (HWG 1723). at 0945h today David Clark caught a juvenile Xenodon nabdocephalus in front of my cabina (#1) that gave him an "impressive display" and regurgitated a small leptodactylus pentadactylus (HWG 1724, 1725). I palped a second, partially digested h. pentadactylus from the snake approx 1400h, swallow TF, and allowed it to be reingested. This little Xenodon responded to the approach of a hand by rapid lateral undulation w/ body and head not expanded,
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Greene, H. 1987 28 December (continued) during which it looked very much like a Bothrops asper neonote. When cornered but not touched, it coiled w/ neck in S and tail coiled and slightly elevated, and struck repeatedly and rapidly in succession - again reminiscent of B. asper, but when in a coil, between strikes, the quadrates were spread laterally as were the anterior-most ribs, creating an impression of a much larger head. Jerry Rorner and Renee (?), his student, saw a gigantic Spilotes pullatus on the Goldridge Trail, adjacent to the parcels. It froze at their approach, vibrated the tail and faced them w/ inflated throat, then moved off into the forest. Renee thought it was 12-14 feet long, Jerry 10 feet - when I told them the one we photographed a few weeks ago was 6'9" they were surprised it was that long and felt that based on much greater girth their big one was at least 10 feet and maybe longer. Oh how I'd like to have seen that snake! After dinner I gave a talk on predator ecology to a group of Wisconsin U. students. Rained most of the night. 29 December Rain and lab work all day. From ~ 2000-2050h walked out the CES with Carmen. At CES 85, 2010 hz, a very small Bothrops martius (161+17 mm, 4.3g) coiled lightly on a palm leaf ~65cm above ground and next to the trail. Snake would have had to climb ~45 cm of stem from ground; palm next to a small old
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Greene, H. 1987 29 December fallen limb (photos). I touched the outer coil lightly (continued) w/ a stick, intending to gently slide it into a bag, whereupon it catapulted off into the leaf litter —seemingly w/ a single flex of the body. My image was of a broad S or T-shaped projectile. Hit the litter crawling and went under the limb, from which Carmen poked it with snake stick. More frantic crawling, perhaps sidewinding at times. At 0830h next morning I palpated two pieces of tail, swallowed head-first, of Splenophorus chesisei. While handled for measurements and palping, it struggled and tried to reach me with fangs. 30 December Rain during the night, until dawn, sometimes hard. From 0930-1115h walked to Holdridge 900 and back, then out to the arboretum. Saw only a Micrastur miserandollei, which flew across the path and perched on a low branch. At noon a great grey heron downstream. From ~1530-1700h walked to Holdridge 750m and back w/out seeing anything—rained hard, with shining in brightly from the west at the same time! 31 December From 0900-1100h walked out SOR, out CCC to ~200m past the Saltito Bridge (?), back to SOR and out Holdridge 900m and back—saw only Cebus. Michael Fogden walked to the south boundary and back without seeing a snake! He brought me a fresh small Felis scat from Sendero Swamp ~500m.
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Greene, H. 1987 31 December at 1300 hr we could see a dead adult ♂ iguana in (continued) the river, bloated and hung on a snag, some flies on its emergent right side, legs dangling in the water. I couldn't see a tail tip so wonder if it is "short tail," whom I haven't seen for days. Downstream on the N. bank I can see at least four adult ♂ iguana, all very visible and out over the river. The farthest is at the W bend, ≥ 400m away, and I first glimpsed it without binoculars (or glasses!). I noted 4 adult ♀♀ in a tree with one, at least one with another. Carmen and I went back at 1500 h. The especially large orange male, upstream on the south bank, is visible out over the river and displaying periodically. In the next tree toward the bridge we counted 7 adult iguana, 1 young adult ♂ and 6 ♀♀! Further upstream from the orange ♂, there was a small adult ♀ at the top of a dead snag, ≈10 m up and at an angle out over the river. Thus today I saw at least 18 different adult iguana along maybe 500m total shoreline, as I surely missed some! And, there are many more in from the river, as we have seen them in numbers just west of the comedor. Also, saw a little blue heron on the downstream logjam at noon. Rained very hard for a half
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Greene, H. 1987 31 December hours at noon, lights off and on in the afternoon. as we started across the bridge at dusk for dinner, a Caluwny's derbianus was fairly running up a high cable on the bridge and then nimbly climbed off to an adjacent tree, where it descended out of sight in foliage on the South Bank of the Rio Puerto Viejo. I picked up the eye shine of an adult Caiman crocodilus near the north bank and slightly downstream, then saw it approach, contact, and move (bite) the dead iguana carcass. As we started up the bridge from dinner, saw a (the same?) C. derbianus rapidly scale a tree and run out a limb tip, turn back, and disappears into the foliage. I am repeatedly impressed that this opossum is more agile in trees than Didelphis. At 2000h we met for the Christmas Bird Count, and totaled 325 species! [Next morning the iguana carcass was gone, but I don't know if it was eaten or washed downstream. On 2 January 1988 I saw "short tail" in his old haunt, and now wonder if the dead lizard had washed down from upstream?]
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H. Greene 1985-1989 Journal 1988 Costa Rica Calif: Mendocino Co. Arizona: Cochise Co.
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Greene, H. 1988 1 January La Selva Biological Station, Heredia, Costa Rica We had planned to leave today and spend the next few days in Monteverde, but problems with car rentals caused us to decide this morning to remain here until the 6th, for the sake of fewer hassles and more total time spent enjoying the forest - this after spending most of the morning packing! At lunch a visiting bird watcher told me that yesterday he saw an adult iguana iguana on the ground w/ a brown snake snake in its mouth - he felt unsure as to whether was trying to eat the snake or just kill it. In the afternoon I walked to SHO 900m and back, with a sidetrip to CCL 700m, without seeing any snakes. A visitor told me he saw a coral snake that was unequivocally Micrurus nigrocinctus struggling with an unidentified brown snake in the morning. 2 January Rained hard most of the night and inter- mittently in the morning. I walked to SHO 900m and back, with a side trip to CCL 700m. At 0959 hr. at SHO 250 m I grabbed a skinny-feeling Chironius grandisquamus as it moved rapidly off the trail into "plot" vegetation (F, 1260+735 mmn, 468g). The snake thrashed, inflated the anterior ~ 1/2 of the body, and repeatedly struck when seized. While being palpated and measured,
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Greene, H. 1986 2 January the cloaca was prolapsed and it expelled a thick (continued) yellow liquid. I didn't detect any odor. Walked to CES 700 m, and spent ~10 minutes at ~CES 550m searching the area where I saw two Lachesis muta in July 1987. Lastly, went to ~250mSoc and back by ~1130 hr. At 1855 hr. Collin Nichols-Onions led me to a large leptodeira annulata crawling slowly up cobbles under a wheelbarrow ramp to the north end of the Rio Puerto Viejo bridge (~635+158mm, 109g). When seized, she crawled rapidly and released a very foul smelling liquid from the cloaca. Carmen and I walked to CES 700 m from 1930-1830hr but saw nothing - a dry, bright moonlit night. 3 January From ~0830-1100 hr Carmen and I walked out the CES, LOC, Sendero El Atajo, and down to the Rio Sarapiqui. I found an old lutia longicaudus scat on the rock I've often seen then on before, and the end of the Sendero Riberano. This scat contained large fish scales and parts of crustacean exoskeleton. On the porch of a casita at the origin of Sendero El Beije I found an old dry and a very fresh small cat scats, possibly Felis pardalis. Maria Marta Garania uses this house to sleep in when she collects butterflies, and tells me a cat often defecates there. At 1312 hr. I found a juvenile
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3 january Sepliodontoplus venustissimus in the trail to (continued) the Benders Arboretum from the AC Trail (217+130mm, 9g). The snake was motionless until seized, and quite cryptic despite its velvety coral snake pattern and bright yellow (leaf-like?) head. When grasped it crawls wildly and wraps the tail around anything in reach. At 13:12 a Dr. Green from University of Colorado, studying Parapoxera, showed me a juvenile Bothrops asper in a tight coil under the edge of a rotten fallen limb (C? 325+50, 12.4g). Snake's head was parallel to limb's long axis, thus ideally situated to intercept a passing prey. When I scarcely touched him with a snake hook, the leierpelr turned instantly and bit. Struggled and bit when handled to measure, etc., at 12:41, just after lunch, I checked trees behind (SW) of the corveur and spotted a pair of Igguara iguana mating.. They were at least 8-10m above ground in a mat of foliage and limbs at the edge of a dark clearing, in an area where I have always been able to spot adults over the past few weeks. When first noticed they both had their heads pointing SW and sides toward me, except that the ?'s head was crossed over the F's shoulders to the right. His body was largely on her left, but arched
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Hesse, H. 1988 3 january (continued) around so the vents were at least nearly in contact - I could not see if they were actually copulating. There was a second adult ♂ ≈ 2 m away in the same tree. At 1246 hrs. the pair separated - the ♂ remained immobile, raised on forelegs and facing me, with orange "roach" of spines erect and dewlap out. The ♀ walked ≈ 1 m away (≈ S.) and more or less simultaneously she and the other ♀ began eating green leaves in a seemingly "unconcerned" manner. Forgot to state earlier that I palpated the tail/pelvic region of a Splenophus chierii from the juvenile (it has a visible umbilical scar) Scaphiodontophis venustissimus; the skin had been swallowed head-first and had a hind leg (to heel) length of 10 mm. 4 january Left at ≈ 0815h with Carmen for ≈ CC 400, where Ron (new ad. asst. director) saw a Bacobasis muta late yesterday afternoon - in fact, he told me it was at CCC 400m so I dash out there at dusk, only to learn later of the mix-up in trail designation. He reported the snake as at the 400 m sign, on the W. edge of the trail - we found it at 0900h on that side but at 420 m on the CC - evidently asleep and in a loose coil. Based on size, bright coloration, and even sleeping posture I think it likely this is the same bushmaster I saw.
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Greene, H. 1988 4 January 11 December 1987 - a "young adult" perhaps 1.6- (continued) 1.8m total length. Returned by way of the CCH and SOR, but saw no other snakes. A warm, sunny day. The last couple of days Iguana have seemed much less commonly visible from the bridge, an impression reinforced as I crossed back and forth for lunch. From ~1430-1600 h I walked out SOR to SHO 800m and back, Released the Chironius grandisquamus at the capture site at SHO 250m. Am trying to get it to stay put for photographs, I had to haul it out on the trail 7 times before it (tired?) took up a stationary defense posture - neck in elevated, exaggerated S-coil, quadrates spread laterally, and mouth slightly open. It would make short strikes if approached closely, or turn and swing to bite if seized, but otherwise held the S-coil and overtured the entire elevated coil as I moved around it. When I retreated a few meters to put away camera gear, it waited ~ 1 minute then crawled into the adjacent "successional plot." In retrospect, there are two other reasons to suspect that the hachesis muta is the same one earlier seen nearly on the Sendero Swampo: it is in a loose, open coil, and it is on the trail edge, potentially exposed to sun - in fact, this morning it was in a sun fleck
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Greene, H. 1988 4 january such that I took photos first without flash. However, (continued) I recall a few other instances (e.g., the first Lachesis I saw at La Selva) of open day coils. A cloudy but mornful night - I made two circuits around the lab clearing sidewalks without seeing anything, after dark. A visitor saw an adult Microtirus nigrocinetus at dusk, on the path to the Old River Station. 5 january From 0900-1030h I walked to CC 420m and back, by way of the Camino Circular and Sendero Oriental. Rained at night until dawn, and a cloudy, humid but cool morning. Found the Lachesis muta in the same spot but with head facing south, unlike yesterday. Going to lunds I could spot the large orange ♂ Iguana iguana on the SE bank of the river, 2 ♂? near the bridge on the NW bank, and 1 ♂ at the river bend downstream - and one N. of the river near the volleyball court - but I still have a feeling these are calming down for them. After dinner, I walked to the Old River Station, out SOR & CCC to the back side of Sendero Cantarana, through it and out the CES to 300m, then around the lab clearing and out on to the river bridge for one last look for Polyergus in the adjacent trees. This was between 1945-2120h, right after a brief shower. There were scattered
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Greene, H. 1988 5 January (continued) frogs calling, but I saw no gralbes. The moon is more or less full, and the forest is well lit anywhere there's a hole in the canopy. 6 January Spent most of the morning packing - leaving La Selva today for San Jose and the U.S. A beautiful ride out - bright blue skies, white clouds, and the green slopes well lit in the afternoon sun. 8 January Carmen got my export permit this morning without problems. I went to the Instituto Clodomiro Picado with Alejandro Solorzano, where he gave me 2 very Bothrops nummifer, born in captivity, a gold B. schlegelii from the Pacific slopes, and a peach-colored B. schlegelii that only reached the institute today from south of Heron. Alejandro told me that B. labialis is the snappiest arboreal viper here, and as he was telling me that the one I was looking at on a book made a fast strike at my face that ended with a "flash gape" for an instant. Photographed an Enulius from near the institute. In the afternoon I talked with Federico Bolanos, who gave me a scat or stomach content of a B. schlegelisi (59.6 cm, 122 g, UCR 10231), Finca La Palma, Dos Rio de Upala, Prov. Alajuela, 5 November 1987).
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Greene, H. 1988 19 March North Coast Preserve, Branscomb, Mendocino Co., California Arrived here ~1800h yesterday w/ 23 students in a UC Berkeley Herpetology Class, plus TA's Kevin dePeurix and Tom [illegible], and Pat Welsh (U.S. Forest Service). By that time today we'd found 19 species of herps. We went to two sites for Ascalpus on Elder Creek in the morning, and to the "White House" at edge of a meadow in the afternoon. In addition to herps, we saw a pigeon owl (Glauclidium), track and scat of Ursus americanus and tracks of Felis concolor. I saw several scat, cf. Lynx rufus. The herps were: Bufo boreas - under rocks near Wilderness Lodge. Rana boylii - several along Eel River and Elder Creek. Hyla regilla - several under rocks and many heard calling in late afternoon. At one short stretch of trailsider in woods, we found 5 ?? on a sundappled roadbank; w/ ~10 m. all gravid. Ascalpus truei - 2 small ??? in a side tributary of Elder Creek. Dicamptodon ensatus - numerous larvae, some very large and obviously neotenic in the creek behind Wilderness Lodge. Rhyacotriton olympicus - several adults and larvae in side seepages of Elder Creek. Taricha granulosa - Several under cover items in woods. Batrachoseps attenuatus - " " " " "
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Greene, H. 1988 19 March Aneides ferrarus - a few, under cover stones in woods. Aneides fleurepentatus-" " " " " Ensatina eschscholtzii - many, of all sizes and including at least one gravid?, under rocks and logs. Clemmys macrostema - 1 in Eel River. Euneces stilttrius - several under cover objects. Elgaria coerulea - many " " " Elgaria multicarinata - 2 under logs by a lone old tree at edge of meadow by White House, same place we got this species when I was here two years ago. Scelopous occidentalis - many in sun. Thamnophis elegans - 1 crossing trail near river at ~1400m, tried to escape down hole under root. 198+65 mm, 3.8g, regurgitated adult Batrachoseps attenuatus, swallowed head-first tail autotomized, 38+42mm, ~0.6g Thamnophis sirtalis - 1 crossing trail ~1230h; 375+131 mm F 21.7g, regurgitated the autotomized tail of an adult Batrachoseps attenuatus. 20 March Diadophis punctatus - 2 under boards near the White House. One, 165+30 mm, 1.4g, regurgitated an autotomized tail of an adult Batrachoseps attenuatus, ~0.3g, ~32mm.
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Greene, H. 1988 20 March Onz Springe Rd., between Comptche and Ukiah, Mendocino Co. Stopped for x 45 minutes at abandoned mill site, 6.2 mi E. of Comptche - saw Anceides flaviguttata, Seeloporos occidentalis, Hyla regilla, and two small Thamnophis elegans. At a steep ravine x 3 miles further E., we got numerous salamanders including Taricha rivularis, giving a grand total of 20 species of herps for the trip. Beautiful weather entire weekend!
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Freene, H. 1988 July 31 Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona arrived here in mid-afternoon with Missy Wood, having spent the previous two nights with David and Billie Hardy and two days before that driving from Berkeley. Went road hunting at ~ 1830 hr to the Sistrurus area, ~ 18-25 miles SW of State Line Rd. on Hwy 80. Found a large adult, very light-feeling Pituophis melanoleucus stretched out and motionless just SW of the little bridge at the base of the curve/hill that Barney Tomberlin says is best for Sistrurus. Snake made an exaggerated S-coil, hissed loudly, and struck when I touched it with snake hooks. Let it go. Collected a juvenile Lampropeltis getulus, which only crawled and squirmed when seized; a small Crotalus scutulatus that crawled in a frenzy, rattled, and struck when restrained; and a fleshy lit adult C. scutulatus in the same area. Saw several Sceloporus couchi and some Bufo on the highway. August 1 Picked up several frozen snakes from Barney Tomberlin. Good rain at midday. Cool and overcast all day. Road hunted from ~ 1900-2230, up into canyon, back through Portal, several passes through the Sistrurus area and again through the canyon (to South Fork). Saw only a live Crotalus scutulatus (collected), and a DOR Thamnophis mccannus near the Sistrurus curve. Numerous
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Flere, Mt. 1988 August 1 Bufo cognatus and Scaphiopus on the road and (continued) calling, and one Rana (pipiens - type) in Care Creeks Canyon. August 2 Woke up once during early morning to solid rain. Cool and overcast all day. Roadhunted to the Sistrurus site - saw no snakes. August 3 Last night Barney Tomberlin gave me a Tantilla yagua that he caught at night by the Telephone Co. building in Portal. He offered it a relatively large Scelopendra which it killed but didn't eat - there was a wet, crunched little site and the centipede was still moving when we examined it. Got some good photos of it this morning - the head is tan anteriorly, with a black head collar and bold light supralabial spot. The light tan hood is not mentioned in Stebbins' account (actually, it looks khaki). From approx 1000-1200 hrs Missy and I drove to Paradise and back, stopping at the Paradise Cemetery and a hillside to fuen rocks and look around. Saw a big Sceloprus clarkii in a rock outcrop crevice, a fewerid Crotaphytus collaris on a small roadside boulder, and several small striped Crepidoporus at 1147 hrs a small adult Masticophis bilineatus escaped off the roadside into dense mesquite. It was sunny and partly cloudy this morning so approx 1400 we went to South
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Greene, H. 1988 August 3 (continued) Fork picnic area and hiked up and back the trail until ~ 1530hs. Increasingly cloudy, but we didn't get rain until ~ 1700hs. Saw several Scelopous jessovie, at 1500 hr I saw an adult ♂ lampropeltis pyronelana crawling under the end of a small fallen mossy log beside the trail. The site is open woodland with lots of grass and rocho, only a few meters from the creek. When I seized and lifted the snake it thrashed and emitted a sharp odor, this I saw no visible cloacal discharge. As I handed it to Missy it bit her, then me and attempted to swallow my thumb. No palpable food. The snake is aberrant in two respects. There is much fusion of black bands, such that posteriorly the red is eliminated; anteriorly, the red is restricted to paired lateral spots. The light bands - which tend to straw yellow as does the snout - fuses at the ventro-lateral margins to form irregular stripes. The snake was not especially obvious crawling in the leaves. During late handling the snake briefly assumed an S-coil, vibrated its tail, and made a short strike. After dinner, at the Portal Store w/ Barney Torberlin, Tony Snell, and Charlie Painter (New Mexico Game and Fish), Missy and I road hunted in rain to State Line Rd. and back - saw
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Greene, H. 1988 August 3 Bufo cognatus, Scaphiopus couchii, and S. (continued) multiplicata (several of each) and a large, freshly flattened Pituophis melanoleucus. August 4 Sunny and partly cloudy this morning. From ~11:30- 15:30 hr, Missy and I walked a 2 1/2 mile trail that ends at Herb Martyr Dam and begins at a point on the road to that dam called Greenhouse Trail. We saw Sceloporus jarrovii and S. virgatus, a golden eagle, a fresh fox scat and several possible bear diggings. A few hundred meters past Ash Spring the trail crosses a small stream, and a few meters farther on the left (north?) is a large (~3m) log with most bark gone. On the underside, a few cm above the ground, I noticed what later proved to be an small adult F Crotalus molossus - at first I saw only the yellow posterior and black tail (was she thermoregulating with it?). Getting closer I saw her head facing out of the crack - she was between a finely attached piece of thick bark on the underside of the log. She moved out of sight despite my efforts to hook her out, and I at first thought she went into the very deep leaf litter under the log. Spotted her back in the crack and after considerable poking got her crawling out a side hole. There was continuous sizzling from the time I first touched her with the probe. At that point I could see her crawling out, and noticed another blacktail's head
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Greene, H. 1988 August 4 [illegible] out the device in my direction. Caught the (continued) [? without difficulty -- she continued to rattle when hooked into a bag, but never struck. After some poking the second snake -- a much larger [?] -- emerged a few inches from the crack and struck twice at me -- short strikes from a light neck S-coil that flashed a whitish mouth. He then retreated into the crack, but in doing so his tail came out and I grabbed it. Then hooked him out and into a bag after he slid off the hook a couple of times -- he alternated holding ground w/ an S-coil w/ suddenly crawling away rapidly, rattling all the time. Had them in the same large bag in my pack, and they quieted down immediately. Still sunny walking back to the truck, but dark clouds over the higher peaks. By ~1800 hr, back at the Hardy's house, I hear thunder and the valley below is very dark. Hard rain into the night. We road hurred from Portal to State Line Rd. and back, and saw a huge Rana catesbeiana, a few Bufo cognatus and Scaphiopus couchi, many S. multiplicatus, and 2 Bufo delirius! -- the live one (a [?]) defecated pellets full of ant heads. August 5 Partly cloudy w/ scattered showers, some sun. Mid-morning we went past South Fork on the Carr Creek Rd., stopping to search talus slopes and a meadow.
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Heene, H. 1988 August 5 (continued) Then drove down to State Line Rd. for some photographs. Missy spotted a long-dead cow, now moistened enough by the rain (I surmise) to have attracted 6-8 turkey vultures. After lunch at the Portal Cafe & a rest, we hiked the Ash Spring - Herb-Martyr Dam trail - to retrieve Missy's water bottle and take a sample of bark from the log where we caught the two Crotalus molossus . The site is shown as right on the 6100' contour on a topo map. Saw only a few Sceloporus jarrovii and S. virgatus. Thunder and dark clouds over the peaks as we walked out, and later when we stopped at the Cathedral Rock Vista Point there were scattered raindrops. Ran into Ed Heske (former MVZ student) over dinner at the Portal Store. Roood hunted up Care Creek Canyon to the SW Research Station and out ~5 mi E. of Portal, but saw only toads and 1 juvenile Crotalus scutulatus. August 6 Bright sun and blue sky when we awoke, and for the first time saw Urosaurus ornatus and Sceloporus clarkii on brick walls of Hardy's house. Road hunting on Portal Rd. We saw a neonate and adult (~1 m) Crotalus atrox (no food in either). August 7 Took Missy to Tucson airport, then road hunted over Gates Pass (Tucson Metro.) and out Sandario Rd. in the Arivac Valley. Saw only an adult Bufo alvarius.
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Greene, H. 1987 August 8 Had truck serviced in the morning. Did laundry and visited w/ Hardy's in the afternoon. ~1930 Howard Tawber and I drove to ~10 miles beyond # Sells m Hwy 86 and back. Saw a few Scaphiopus, several Bufo alvarius, and one B. retiformis. Snakes includes an adult and juv. Crotalus scutulatus (later not saved), C. atrox, C. cerastes, C. tigris, Rhinocodon lecontei, Arizona elegans (not saved), and Pituophis melanoleucus (not saved). August 9 Spent last night with the Hawlens and arrived back in Portal by mid-afternoon. I drove in by way of San Simon and Paradise, a beautiful ride. I hit a Phrynosoma douglasii that was basking in the middle of the road near Paradise, in an area of grassland and scattered juncipers. Gerald Meher (Placerville) gave me a pair of Crotalus molossus he found in contact in the road at Stewart Camp in Care Creek Canyon. I road hunted to the Sistrurus site and got only three snakes, one of them an aberrant Crotalus atrox. The snake is an adult that evidently lacks black and white on its body - ground color and blotches are blurred, although the tail rings are ~ normal. August 10 Barney Tonberlin, Tony Snell, and I left ~1030h for a site we visited a couple of years ago for Crotalus pricei, at ~8100' el. and 1/2 air mile E. of Barfoot Lookout. Sun was shining brightly
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Greene, H. 1988 August 10 (continued) this morning but by the time we parked the peaks were in clouds, it was chilly and misty, and there was thunder. Rocks were very warm to the touch, however, and we saw a few Sceloporus viridatus and S. janorii active on rocks. We searched an E. facing #rock slide w/ scattered outcrops, oaks, and stunted conifers -- mostly open habitat w/ scattered thickets of some low shrubs. I encountered two ? Crotalus molossus w/in 5 min. at ~1135 hrs., both of whom I heard rattling before I saw them. The first was in a defensive coil, in the open but near rubble and shrubs. It rattled continuously, repeatedly crawled away (sometimes backwards, w/ the head in a short fme S-coil), and made short wide open strikes at least twice. Second snake was a few meters away, in a cavity between two adjacent rocks, and scarcely visible -- I would surely have passed except for the rattling (or gotten bitten reaching in the rocks' crevice?). The second snake is an even larger adult, equally aggressive -- also struck several time. Late proved to contain a rabbit, Sylvilagus (I release the first snake). On the opposite (~ W facing) slope (which is wooded w/ large conifers, has lots of old fallen logs on grassy slopes), Tony found an adult ? C. pricei under a large piece of
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Greene, H. 1988 August 10 (continued) rusty tin from which I palpated the hindquarters and tail of an adult Sceloporus janvori (saved the lizard, released the snake). As we drove to the Portel Store for lunch, found a large non-gravid ? Phrynosoma modestum backing (up on legs) in the middle of the road ~100 meters W. of the store - habitat is mesquite grassland. Road hunted to Sistrurus site where I got a DOR S. catenatus that looked to have been hit ~ 1 hr earlier, also some Scaphiopus, an Arizona DOR, and a young ? Crotalus molossus 2.0 mi E. of Portel in mesquite-grassland - although there are hills and ledge systems within less than a mile (I later photographed the site). This snake rattled continuously, struck, and struggled fiercely when pinned. August 11 Partly cloudy when I awoke at 0730hr. Drove to 2 mi N of Paradise and back, hoping for Elaphe or Lampropeltis in the riparian woods along East Turkey Creek. Returning, I saw a large Crotalus atrox crawling out onto the dirt road 1.5 mi N of Portel on the dirt road to Paradise. Snake crawled rapidly back off road into heavy mesquite, moving ~8m before coiling, rattling all the time, after considerable struggle and some then
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Hesse, H. 1988 August 11 (continued) wounds for both of us. I hooched the snake out, back up onto the road, and into the bucket. The animal appeared very stout so I thought perhaps it was a gravid ♀ and/or contained a large prey item. Dave and Billie Hardy arrived ≈ 1300 hrs, and Dave and I measured the snake: a ♂ w/ no palpable prey, 1.85 kg, tail 97mm, total length ≈ 1.42 m - a large diamondback by local standards. Every time I worked the snake, it inflated, crawled rapidly away and when restrained formed a tight S-coil and occasionally struck. It also muscled heavily, but I never saw any cloacal discharge. Yesterday Ed Hesse (former UCB grad student) told me he found a DOR Hypsiglena torquata in mesquite E. of Portal that contained a Holbrookia. Dave and I rode hunted from Portal to the Sistrums area and made five passes over the ≈5 mile stretch that seems best: we got four live snakes, one each Thamnophis marciams (exaggerated S-coil, striking, and foul cloacal discharge), Crotalus scutulatus, Rhinocleitus lecontei (thrash cloacal discharge), and Sistrurus catenatus (immobile, but later rattles for long stretches wherever I approached the cage). Driving back we released a large (≈1m) Crotalus also that was just crawling onto the road.
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Greene, H. 1988 August 12 Billie Dave, and I spent the morning driving to East Whitetail and Jhous canyons, on the northeastern side of the Chiricahuas - saw only several Sceloporus janovi, and the skeleton of an adult Pitophis melanoleucus beside the small stream in Jhous Canyon. After an early dinner, Dave, Barney Tomberlin, and I road hunted to the Sistine's site and back - saw one neonate C. scutulatus, one neonate C. atrox, and three adult C. atrox, as well as a few Bifo and Scaphiopus. August 13 Left before 800 hr w/ Dave and Billie and went to the slide area ~ 1/2 mi E. Barfoot Lookout, where I saw the two Crotalus molossus on the 10th. Beautiful weather and lots of Sceloporus janovi and S. viridatus, but no snakes. After lunch stopped at Barney Tomberlin's, where a friend of his had for me an adult Diadophis punctatus from which I palped a small adult Hypsiglena torquata. Dave and I rode hunted in Care Weele Canyon and E. of Portal from ~ 1830 - 1730 hr then went to a party at the S.W.R.S. Talked to Kim Sullivan (Utah State U.) who has three records of Crotalus pricei eating junco's at Rustler Park. Driving back, by the Lajie's place, at 2215hr we found an adult Crotalus molossus immobile and stretched!
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Greene, H. 1988 August 13 out in the middle of the pavement. Never rattled (continued) as we hooked it into a bucket. August 14 Dave, Billie, and I left early and were at Rustler Park to look for Crotalus pricei by 0800. We searched a hillside of scattered crickets in an old burn area, and talus on the adjacent slope - all in bright sun - but saw only Sceloporus scalaris. Then went to the large south-facing slope at Barfoot Lookout - an enormous talus slide. At approx 0900 hr Dave found a huge Crotalus pricei: 530+48 mm, 108g, no palpable food. He saw the snake because it moved, then rattled as it went under a small flat rock. When handled it rattled, bit sideways, and struck at the snake hook; repeatedly cranked for cover, but finally coiled for photos when I covered it with my cap.
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Greene, H. 1988 September 8 Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona arrived here approx 1530 hr, after a flight from Oakland to Tucson, where I picked up the Hardy's jeep. After dinner road hunted to Sistrums area on Hwy 80, made two circuits back and forth, then back here to talk to Barney Tomberlin and Tony Snell. approx 1 mi. E. of Portal I stopped to check a juvenile Pituophis and getting back in the car saw a Micrurus crawling onto the road from mesquite grassland - not even dark yet. It squirreled and popped when restrained w/ my foot and then a grab stick. approx 1/4 mi SW of State Line on Hwy 80 an adult Crotalus scutulatus got off the road before I could get out to catch it. Then got a small Sistrurus, catenatus, immobile and stretched out - squirreled and rattled when seized w/ grab stick. Saw another juvenile Pituophis approx 2030 hr on Portal Rd., and after leaving Barney's, another, larger Micrurus just E. of the Portal (Cane Cocks) Bridge - also squirreled and popped when restrained. Both of the coral snakes crawled very rapidly when first touched. September 9 at approx 0930 Barney and I went to check a telemetered Crotalus molossus, 2.8 mi N. of Portal on the road to Paradise. He found the snake initially in a ravine bottom w/ dense vegetation (e.g., big sycamores, alligator junipers). To the west on the main Chiricahuas rising above slopes of grass, rocks, and junipers. To the East, more open, steep, rocky country w/
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Hearne, H. 1988 September 9 (continued) Lots of cacti, agave, yucca, and some emergent boulder outcrops and high cliffs. We tracked the snake to a rock it has been under for several days, and counted 56 clicks/60 seconds. After that we walked it mile up (S) the road and could still get a clear signal if we wore headphones. Last rain here was ~5 days ago - hard. Dave Hardy arrived in the afternoon and w/Barny and Tony Snell we re-checked the radio-tagged Crotalus molossus at ~1700hr - 63 clicks/60 seconds. Just before that we saw an adult Cr. atrox on the Paradise Rd., just N. of the paved road out of Portal in mesquite. Barney and Tony caught me a Diadophis punctatus on the Paradise Rd. shortly thereafter, and Dave and I found a large F Phrynosoma cornutum basking at pavement edge between their house and the Portal store. It has a substantial healed wound in front of the left hind leg. We road hunted to the Sistrums area and made 3 passes, but got only a Rhinoscelus lecontei on the Portal Rd. and a DOR (heterodon) (stomach full) on Aug 80. September 10 Dave and I put down a Crotalus molossus w/ halothane that Barney and Tony caught w/in the last month on the Paradise Rd.: ♂ 1090 + 75 mm, 850 g, scar on head, 11 rattle segments - outer one incomplete, basal segment 16.5 mm, 10th segment 16.1 mm
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Greene, H. 1988 October 11 Received the clean skull and four color slides of the carcass of an Orthogeomys underwoodi (HWG 1847) from Costa Rica, from D. K. Jetturneau (Asst. Prof. of Environmental Studies, UC Sta. Cruz). The gopher was trapped at the junction of two tunnels at the base of a cacao tree. Sr. Geremias Arias G. told Jetturneau that these gophers are active above ground at night (Sr. Arias G. worked for years as a gopher trapper for United Fruit Co. at Passita [which either is or is near the type locality of O. underwoodi], and now lives near Playa Blanca. He is the uncle of Feyner Arias G., husband of D. K. Jetturneau). October 14 Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona Arrived here ~1800 hr last night, after flying to Tucson and driving Billie Hardy's car here via Douglas. I wanted to see the habitat of Sistrurus catenatus along Hwy 666 (from whence HWG 1804) - it is grassland w/ clumps of Yucca, and I saw at least one stream or canal and one drying pond. Farther north the grassland is heavily invaded w/ brush. Saw fresh DOR Lituophis melanoleucus on Hwy 666, Hwy 80, and the Portal Rd. This morning ~0900 hr Barney Tortelhi and I hiked up to find the Crotalus molossus w/new telepics transmitter in it. Sunny and warm, but not hot - and by noon it was partly cloudy ad there was a brief shower. We found and photographed
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Diore, H. 1988 October 14 the blacktail, coil in shade under a boulder and (continued) lying on rock, in thick *Pleacion - Opuntia* - Osthills shrub. The site is a steep slope below rimrock. Snake never moved and we didn't disturb it. Barney gave me a pair of *Thamnophis cyrtopsis* he found on the road, one following the other (1850-185). From 1430-1530 hr I walked upstream from the Hell-Marty Dam parking lot, but saw only *Sceloporus janvri* and *S. virgatus juveniles*; I had found *Urosaurus* and *S. clarki* around the Hardys' house earlier. Met Howard Snell on the road (He was coming w/ Pat Kennedy and Jerry? [with UNM graduate students] to a meeting at the SWRS). Took them up to check the blacktail at 1600hr. It was still coiled but a few cm from it's moving site, seemingly in a better place to sun. It seemingly woke when Pat leaned close, and crawled slowly and continuously into a crevice under the rock - never settled. By this time there were dark clouds everywhere and a slight drizzle as we descended the hill. Rained over an inch during the night (42 mm). Dave Hardy had arrived by the time I returned from supper at the store. October 15 This morning we surgically implanted a Tebics MOD-050 transmitter, freq. 148.4295, in a *Crotalus molossus* from the same slope as #1. Barney Tomberlin found this ? out crawling at 1700hr October 3. She weighs 460 g, transmitter 27.5 g.
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Greene, H. 1988 October 15 SV 840mm, tail 57mm. Six rattles includin' (continued) base, which we painted yellow. Seemingly no problems w/ the surgery. At ~160h Dave Hardy and I released a large σ C molossus at its capture site on Paradise Rd. (This σ was captured and processed last month, maintained at Dave's house, where it ate 2 Neotoma). Then we released the ♀ (
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H. Greene 1985-1989 Journal 1989 Costa Rica Calif: Contra Costa Co. Arizona: Cochise Co. Costa Rica Arizona: Cochise Co.
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Greene, H. 1989 April 3 La Selva Biological Station, Prov. Heredia, Costa Rica Arrived here ~1400 hr, ~3 hr late because a logging truck had turned over just past El Salto falls, such that we returned to Heredia and came through Parque Nacional Braulio Carillo. I arrived in country on the 29th of March having left Oakland at ~1000hr. Had a bumpy flight in the US, but a nice one from Miami - the pilot was Jose Pablo Gonzales, uncle of Carmen Rojas. Had dinner w/ Carmen Thursday and Friday night. Went to the Instituto Odonomzo Picado on the 31st, to have lunch with Alejandro Solorzano and Jose Maria Gutierrez. Saw a chocolate-colored Bothrops schlegeli, attended the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Organization for Tropical Studies on the 1st and 2nd. D.E. Gill (U. Maryland) told me that on ~7 March 1989 he and E.D. Brodie III found a small Pseustes poecilotes heron on the ground at ~CES 650m, trying to eat a restless Dusky Antbird (Cercomacra lyrannina , "feathers in pin", 9.2g). Adult birds were screaming at the snake, and later they found it had abandoned the bird affair took place under an Asterogyre. I had come down w/ a sinus infection the 1st, such that by the time I arrived here I was miserable. La Selva is extremely dry - the Ecological Reserve
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Greene, It. 1989 April 3 (swamps) is dry and everywhere open ground is (continued) deeply cracked. I'm told that except for a brief drizzle on the 2nd, there has been no rain in a month or so. April 4 I spent most of yesterday and today in bed, and possibly am getting better. Sharon Emerson (University of Utah) and I walked out the SOR and CCL to 1000 m and returned, but saw nothing. Only frogs calling at night were scattered Eleutherodactylus and several Bufo marinus that sounded as if down by the river. I saw one each Hyla laevis (crossed out) and a small Smilisca (not bairdii) on the wall of the barn in the old river station, and an adult Theloderma sapicandum also. Dendrobates tumidus is everywhere to be seen and heard, despite the drought. At the Board meeting there was talk about whether increased human presence was affecting large animal sightings, and David Clark opined they are more common now, perhaps because of reduced hunting. The Clarks have had a herd of Tayassu tajacu below their house daily for a week or so, at ~1730 hr. Yesterday and today I saw an agouti and two finchous. near the station, and at 1140 hr in flight sun today an adult Jayna (Eira barbara) crossed across the new lab clearing (it had a rather light yellow chest patch but was
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Heene, H. 1988. April 4 (continued) otherwise more or less solid black). After lunch I waded into the river below the Old River Station and searched logs up and downstream -- so other (Chutra longicaudus) scots nor could I see any from the bridge further downstream. Took photos of a swarm of yellow butterflies on a sand/gravel bar -- they periodically exploded at my approach, fluttering back and forth over the river and reminding me of the famous passage in One Hundred Years of Solitude. April 5 Alejandro Sotziano arrived yesterday afternoon, and w/ Sharon we walked out the CCC, CC, Sendero El Suepo, and returned by Holdridge and SO R. Hot and sunny, but it rained hard for 1-2 hours before dawn. At 0840 hr we found a F Bothrops asutus at X 700 ccc, coiled to one side of trail center and facing down it -- as Alejandro pointed out, well positioned to catch a foraging Amaira festiva. It weighs 31.5g, SV 385 mm, tail 38 mm. A silver-gray, almost bluish snake, actually conspicuous on the mainly red-brown soil and leaf litter. I took one photo in situ, and as I circled for a second the snake struck hard toward me, landing in an open coil -- instead of the original tight one. Clearly it was alert. Tried to crawl off, but not too animated, as we hosed it into a
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Green, H. April 5 bz. at 09/6hr, 200 cc, a juvenile male (continued) Rhadine decorata crawling in litter on the trail. Had a complete tail, whirled and spewed a foul mush when handled. In the swamp I stepped off the boardwalk to reach for a frog or lizard and sunk to my knees! After crawling out, I found a small eel (~15 cm TL) that I took to be Synbranchus in the mud on my feet, and it regurgitated a worm of some sort. Saw 40+ Cebu in the swamp, and heard alouette on the Holdridge Trail. We passed John Asvin (Austin, Texas) w/ his group of birders in the succession plots, and shortly thereafter he found in the trail remains of a Sibon nebulata (tail and posterior) adult that had been largely eaten by savellies, at 10:35 hr., 50R 450 m, we found a Cryptophis cristatus (103+243 mm, 34 g, “pezto 2 onpopo” fide Alejandro) in litter on the trail. At our approach it hopped once or twice, a meters so to the side and rapidly ascended a sapling (~φ~40 mm) to ~1 m and froze. When seized it struggled and was periodically limp, then struggled again, but did not gape when poked. There have been two adult male Iguana iguana in trees near the bridge, on the north side of the Puerto Viejo – dull colored, but healthy looking. One was basking in a tree crotch fairly
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Green, H. 1989 April 5 (continued) close to the bridge, and responded to my presence by dropping so low as to be hard to see. at ~ 1330 hr today in bright sun I saw an adult ? (based on low battered spins on back), looking gaunt and very uniformly dark, basking on an emergent log on the north bank of the river. at 1915 hr John Derin took me to a juvenile Bothrops macutus (18g, ~270+42 mm, ?) that was sketched out in litter beside the arboratum trail. When touched w/ snake hook it made several wide, convulsive lateral swings, then paused. When picked up it writhed, expelled liquid from the cloaca, and tried to bite. A shower ~2100 hr. April 6 Rained hard again this morning before dawn. Sharon Emerson and I walked out the CES and Arajo (SAT) to a rock where Mat O'Brien and I have collected otter scats before. Light rain at ~0900, but hot sun by the time returned. At 0850 hr at ~SAT 200 m I spied a juvenile Bothrops asper in litter, crawling beside the boardwalks. It crawled rapidly to the underhang, and turned and bit my boot when restrained. Had a yellow tail, no food. Found three small piles of fresh lutra longicaudus feces on the rock at the south edge of the Rio Sarapiguiri. River so high and rough we didn't try to cross it. At ~1100 in the arboratum saw an adult Septodon cayensis perch high in a canopy and, always keeping its back to us, pecked repeatedly at something.
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Green, H. 1989 April 6 (continued) Twice the bird flew to a nearby tree, perhaps in response to our presence on a slope ≈50m away, and returned. When I walked down to below the tree for an unsuccessful search for bits of the prey (?) it left. At ≈1300h I was taken to a yellow-tailed juvenile Bothrops asper, coiled beneath the overhang of some boardwalk steps near the repair shop and the dining hall. Snake was in a tight coil w/ head aimed out, well placed to strike an approaching lizard or heel in sandal! When I hoisted it out the snake crawled rapidly w/ lateral undulation away from me, and when restrained w/ snake took it immediately and repeatedly turned and bit. From ≈1310-1325h I watched an adult Iguana iguana just below the north end of the bridge crawl across an expanse of leafy vegetation and eating almost continuously. I could clearly see leaves contacted by the tongue, and some of the leaves were several square cm ad easily ingested. Also saw a gaunt ? high in a tree, in shade. Talked w/ Ruth Triffi, who works for Cathy Brinfe on the streams project (31-03-93, Apdo. 346, Paros, C.R.) and who knows a lot about local crustaceans. She told me that there are large freshwater crabs here (likes I saw the Lutra eat below the bridge), that several species of local shrimp belongs to the genus Macrobrachium, and that those in the lutea seats I collected this morning belong
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Greene, H. 1989 April 6 (continued) to the genus Atcya , She said there can be marked variation in abundance and species composition of shrimp assemblages by stream, season, and even daily (the last because of rainfall effects). From ~ 1430 - 1700 walked out the CCC and SO R to release the Bothrops nasutus and Cryptophare from yesterday (?), then stopped at the waterfall. Most of the time a fairly heavy rain fell, but before dusk there was scattered sunlight, Joach Ewel (U. Florida) also saw a juvenile B. asper today. Began raining after dinner and continued into the night. From ~ 2000 - 2200 h Sharon and I walked to ~ 650 CES and beach, and through the Ecological Reserve Swamp. More scattered frogs calling than on previous night, and we saw a Naos limifrons asleep on a leaf, a thyla cleaschrea perched on a leaf, and found an Smantole conchua crawling in litter beside the sidewalk, just into forest from the laboratory clearing (2215 hr, 480 + 315 mm, slight odor when handled). Still no water in swamp, nor frogs seen. April 7 Rained all morning. At noon Guillermo brought me a very fresh scat of Felis onca or F. concolor , from junction of the CCC and SSO. He and Joel saw a Leucopternis semiplumbeus eating, or rather holding a stilllive tinnamou chick. Left La Selva at 1330h, to leave San Jose for the U. S. early on the 9th.
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Greene, H. 1989 May 5 Briones Regional Park, Contra Costa Co., California Took a Zoology 107 field trip here, from 0800-1200, on a beautiful warm, sunny day. Water in all four lagoons (we came in from the Alhambra Valley Rd. side), but three of them heavily trampled by cattle. Saw 3 Pituophis melanoleucus (all adults above ground in open grassland), 1 juvenile Coluber constrictor, 1 juvenile Thamnophis elegans, and 1 adult T. couchii (requisitated fastwater). Also heard Hyla regilla, caught juvenile Rana aurora, saw numerous Scelopous occidentalis and counted 16 Clemmys macrocata basking in the fenced Sirdsich Lagoon. May 6 Repeat of yesterday's trip: 1 Pituophis melanoleucus (same stub-tailed animal seen yesterday), 2 Coluber constrictor (1 ad., 1 juvenile), 4 Thamnophis couchii (1 ad & from Upper Sirdsich requisitated a Taricha), plus lizards and turtles and frogs. June 4 Portal, Chiricahua Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona Arrived here ~1330hr w/ Claudine Juke, having left Berkeley on the 1st. Visited Howard Lawton in Tucson, who said he has seen Crotalus atrox, (C. tigris, and Phyllodryphus browni on the roads lately although there has been no rain. I visually located the adult ♀ Crotalus molossus (we have been radiotracking since last August) high on the slope where it's been all winter. The snake is in a hole within a crevice, under a flag
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Here, It. 1989 June 4 (continued) That indicates David Hardy found it here on May 6th of this year. The hole is only a few cm in diameter, and all I could see was the side of a body segment w/ the head resting on it and facing directly out. The snake's colors seem dull to me, but the light was poor. Is it waiting to shed, waiting for rain (not due for another month or more), or waiting for a Nestoma to choose that hole for a nest? The last doesn't seem likely because the snake seems ill positioned to strike. I stabbed my knee on an agave or some other plant coming down the slope. Beginning ~ 1930 hrs, I rode hunted until ~ 2115hrs - up Cave Creek Canyon to SWRS, down to Portal and out to Hwy 80 via StateLine Rd. Drove to ~ 22 mi SW of StateLine Rd. To the area where I collected Sistrurus catenatus last year and made two circuits of the Bernardino Valley. Saw no snakes all evening, nor did I see any lizards going up to see the blacktail. June 5 Drove up to SWRS and back at ~ 0930, w/ a sidetrip to South Fork - saw only birds and a squirrel. Creeks dry in lower canyon, but there is still a low water ford below the South Fork picnic area as well as at least one bridge on the way in. From ~ 1630 - 1730 hr I explored at the base of the slope on the W side of the dry bed of South Fork, ~ 1/2 mile from the turnoff. Very dry, although there were insects under some rocks. Saw a few active juvenile and adult Sceloporus
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Greene, H. 1989 June 5 (continued) January. When I jussed a flat rock approx 40 cm in greatest width, a juvenile Elgaria kingii dashed approx 50 cm to the cover of a roller oak log. The lizard had a well-banded, unregenerated tail, and I could clearly see sinuous waves in the turked tail as it rapidly scottered away. It initially froze upon reaching the cover of the log, as a small portion of the tail remained visible until I reached for it. I tore up the log a little, but the latter was thick and I failed to find the lizard. Drove up to SWRS before returning to the Hardy's house, but still no snakes. From approx 1920-2100 hrs I made two circuits on the road, from Portal to SWRS, back to State Line, and then to Portal. Saw six white-tailed deer, but the only keep was a fairly fresh DOR Phrynosoma modestum at 1950hrs, 2.3mi E. of Portal. Only a sliver of a moon, which was at times obscured by clouds, so it's very dark. June 6 Checked the telemetered Crotalus molossus, found him at 1705 hrs - the device is in shade from the rocks it is in and two large Opuntia patches above and west of it. I photographed the snake, which lie in an elliptical open coil, w/ body extending well out of the crack. The head was easily visible but back up in the hole. No tongue flicks or other sign of the snake sensing me, and I was at pains to not disturb it. Probably could have caught it, but I want
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Greene, H. 1989 June 6 (continued) To check its morning behavior. From ~1/40 - 2/15 hr I drove from Portel to the Sistrums site and saw no snakes. Bessiey Timberlin and Tony Snell picked up a Microceroides eurygnathus during that period, hit by a car in front of them. Two nights earlier they saw one Pituophis and Crotalus scutulatus on the Portel Rd. June 7 With Bessiey and Tony, checked the Crotalus molossus at 0850hr, when the slope has been in full sun for several (>=3) hours. We could only see the edge of a coil, deep in the hole. Then Tony took me high above on the steeper rock face to the winter sites. Two holes the snake used are now plugged w/dirt and litter - if that is typical, a snake using this slope can not depend on a particular hole - but of course there are many holes. In fact, our snake used several over the course of winter, some of them more than once on different occasions. After lunch Claudia and I drove up to the slide, just before the turnout to Barfoot, where I've caught Crotalus molossus and C. pricei in the past. Everything is exceptionally dry and the soil among talus everywhere exposed - at first I wondered if the Forest Service had run some huge machine over the area! Saw only a few Sceloporus janovii, adults and hatchlings. Went to Barfoot campground (now filled with Boy Scouts) for photos of the slide, and also saw several S. janovii there. Drove back via E. Turkey
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Greene, H. 1989 June 7 (continued) Creek Canyon (which has water) and Paradise. At 17:15 hr I located the telemetered Crotalus molossus still in his hole this time w/only the head showing - facing directly out and largely filling the hole. At 17:26 hr as I came down from that site, and only a few /os of m below it, a Salvadora grahamae dashed a meter or so then froze stretched out near a flash, whereupon I grabbed it w/ Pilshton Tongs. Site was already in shade of the bluff. From 19:45-21:00 hr I repeatedly drove the first 2-3 mi E. of Portal, but saw nothing. June 8 Antelope Pass, Hidalgo Co., New Mexico Visited an array of can trap grids extending from W. side of this Pass to E., run by Barney Tomberlin and Tony Snell for New Mexico Fish western and Game Dept. This morning, at the eastern - most site, we saw in the cans Cnemidophorus sonorae, C. ligios, Cophosaurus texanus, Phrynosoma modestum Uta stansburiana , and a Heloderma suspectum! I found the latter in a can near mesquite and other dense vegetation, >2 m from the edge of a dry wash. It was a very young one, very pale and w/ a distinct umbilical scar (134+53mm, 30.4g.). Very feisty - squirmed, gaped, and readily bit a plastic bag. At the western - most site (Town of Arivaca visible in the distance) we saw an adult Phrynosoma
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Greene, H. 1989 June 2 (continued) modestum sun at our feet in open scrub, The animal made several short runs (~1m), and each time upon stopping wagged its tail back and forth several (~3-6) times. The plane of movement was largely lateral but at times the distal ~1/4-1/2 was slightly deviated. Portal, Chiricahua Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona as we pulled into the Hardy's driveway I saw an adult ♀ Pituophis melanolaeus slowly crawling in full sun at 1116 hrs. Only response to being picked up was attempt to crawl away. Freshly shed (bright colors and one small piece of old skin on her side), neither skinny nor fat. Palped a small rodent (saved) and released the snake. At 1644 hrs I found the melanoleucd Crotalus molossus deep in its crevice/hole, only a loop of its body visible by flashlight. From ~1900-2015 hrs Claudia and I repeatedly road hunted the first ~2 miles east of Portal, but saw no snakes. June 9 at 0805 hrs I saw an adult Pituophis melanolaeus escape into grass and mesquite ~1/2 mi W. Portal. San Bernardino Valley, Cochise Co., Arizona arrived here ~1000 hrs w/ Barney Torberlin and Tony Snell, to scout the area for future studies on Sistrurus catenatus. First we visited the Robert Krenz Ranch, which is a few miles NW of Hwy 80 on Puckler Canyon Road. We were met
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Greene, H. 1989 June 9 (continued) by Bob Krentz (age 64) and his son, Robert. The former in cowboy hat, the latter with strange blue, indistinct eyes and dressed like a mechanic. They were stand-offish at first - referred to my Toyota truck as a "rice rocket" and wanted to know why I didn't "help out the goddamned economy by buying a Chevy!" They've had bad experiences w/ scientists in the past, particularly Peter Wasser and his crew from Purdue, and are clearly skeptical, but also were soon genuinely hospitable in an underemonstrative way. Told us we're welcome anytime, offered me a key to the gate, etc. We talked to them ~30 minutes about drug runners, federal bureaucrats, etc. - all of which they view as threats. We also met the younger son, Phil, whom Robert earlier referred to as "the ready one likely to give you trouble." Bob Krentz enlightened me as to where the "Chisicahua" of older maps was - precisely at the junction of (now) Buckler Canyon Rd. and Hwy 80; it was a railroad "siding" and encompassed a small community, but ~the end of World War II the railroad moved its workers to Douglas and the place disappeared. This makes sense in terms of that old specimen of Sistrurus catenatus from "Chisicahua."
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Greene, H. 1989 June 9 (continued) Driving out from the ranch, we stopped to catch a large adult ♂ Holbrookia maculata < 100 m from the junction w/ Hwy 80. It was sunning on a rock ≈100m, on open red soil near scattered grasses -- as we approach to noose the lizard it ran ≈1m and frozen w/ its head in a grass clump. It struggled and gaped to bite when handled. Walked around to look for others, but saw only Cnemidophorus uniparens. Nest pulled in at a ranch gate a few miles further SW -- just over the hill from the long sweeping S-curve where I caught Sistrurus last year. Walked up to an abandoned cinder mine, from which I took photos SW, E, and NE of the valley. Saw two small adult (bright green) Crotaphytus collaris, one under tin and the other under an old tire. Tony saw a thraurus. There is a raven nest on some sort of rusty, probably mine equipment, causing us to speculate that one could have poached raven eggs after a lightning storm. There is at least one barn owl nest site in a box in the hill at the mine, with a pile of pellets and rodent bones below it. The soil here is a rich red-brown, about like the coat of some Herefords or perhaps a Santa Gertrudis. It is very dry now, the grass light yellow-brown.
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Greene, H. 1989 June 9 (continued) The only likely shelters for Sistrurus I saw appeared to be kangaroo rat burrows, which at this place are clustered into mounds. I noticed a few wallow-like depressions, roughly circular and a few meters across w/ different vegetation, that Barney says fill w/ water during the monsoon. There is a fair amount of tin and boards around the mine, but all such that underneath would be far too hot for a small rattler. Digging out we saw that there is an obvious marshy area at the valley's low point, in the middle of the S-curve -- precisely where one most frequently finds Sistrurus and Thamnophis marcianus. My bet is the massasaugas stay there through the cold and dry part of the year, and move outward up the valley slopes of grassland during the monsoons. Barney and Tony had previously found an adult Crotalus atrox and Pituophis under a rusty abandoned truck at the mine, and many C. sentalatus in the grassland below -- either lying out or in the mouths of K-rat burrows. Poital, Chiricahua Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona at 1630 hr I could see the side of the body of the telemetered Crotalus molossus , against the entrance of the hole he has been in all week. Hot's sunny, tho even now the hole is in shade. Claudia and I
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Greene, H. 1989 June 9 went to SWRS for dinner from ~1730 - 2230hrs., but (continued) saw nothing on the road. George Q. Middelhof (Howard University) told me that he saw (in a past year) an adult Elaphe triaspis in South Fork Canyon climb an agave and eat some nestling birds. June 10 Spent the morning preserving snakes Barney gave me. From ~1500 - 1800 hr Claudia and I hiked the trail to Ash Springs and Herb Martyr Dam, but saw only a few Sceloporus janovi. After dinner at the Portal Store we drove to the Sisters site and made three passes over the 3.5 mile stretch between Pucker Canyon Rd. and the ranch gate to the cinder mine. On the way out we got a DOR Phrynosoma cornutum and a DOR Pitophis. June 11
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Heene, H. 1989 July 3 San Jose, San Jose Province, Costa Rica Arrived here on Laca at ~1530h, noticed again how their pilots make more exciting landings than gringos - we made a complete, tight, low arc and came in for a perfect landing. Spent this morning working on Scotocophis atrocintus and Taritilla annulata in Jay Savage's collection (spent last night w/ he and Becky - promised to send her Darla Hilliard's book about snow leopards). Alejandro Solizano picked me up; told him I really want a live Scotocophis and by coincidence he has one - a big pretty ? from near here! I weighed it after ~1 hr of rehydration and fresh defecation. (200 July 6) I detected his response to handling: great rapid undulation, what a nice surprise! I'd call the light "rings" off-white or creamy, slightly gray; the middorsal stripe is bright deep salmon pink - and suddenly it occurs to me that this color pattern (which I have been considering unique) occurs in some Sonora semionotata. Savitzley thinks Taritilla and Sonora are related, and since Scotocophis looks like a Taritilla w/ a tiny loreal perhaps it and Sonora share some homologous aspect of color pattern. Also visited Alejandro's "Serpentario," which is downtown - an excellent exhibition and gallery of foreign prints.
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Ateneo, H. 1989 July 4 Shopped in the morning, then joined Alejandro Solerzaro and Jose Maria Gutierrez (Director of the Instituto Clodomiro Picado) for lunch. Spent the afternoon looking at snakes at I. C. P. and Serpentario. July 5 Estacion Biologica La Selva, Heredia Prov., Costa Rica Arrived here after an uneventful trip, ~1030 hr, in a light drizzle. Cloudy all afternoon. ~2000 hr I walked out the CES to ~200 m, then back through the Cartarana swamps - no snakes, water almost up to the boardwalk (there was reportedly a tremendous storm last night), and scattered frogs (Hyla loquax and others) calling. Saw a small Bufo marinus (~80mm) on sidewalk in the bald clearing. July 6 At 0559 hr I saw a hutia, freshly wet, dive @ a log near the N. bank of the Rio Puerto Viejo, below the La Selva Bridge. It resurfaced a few seconds later ~50-60 m downstream, then dove again. Photographed the live Scelopops - only response to handling is violent thrashing, often w/ body extended semiaerid (see also July 14, 1989). Examined the feces - scattered arthropod parts, but not much for sign of the initial feces. Most of it was unidentified small debris. The parts were yellow-brown, and at least three looked like segments of Scolopendra. From ~0900-1000 hr I walked around the area ~500 m CES, near Don Perry's Leitkys tree, where several Hadrosis have been seen. Then out to the Arboretum, where
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July 6 (continued) at 1015h I spotted a big ♂ Pseustes poecilonotus (800g, 1379+537mm) lying in grass in a patch of dappled sun. It was immobile and easily mistaken for a branch. Didn't move until I touched it, then instantly inflated most of the body, gaped widely, and bit my forearm - and wouldn't release easily! Some odor - not strong or especially disagreeable - was evident by the time I bagged it. Several Iguana and Rhinoclemys visible from the bridge at noon. Thunderstorms upslope and the afternoon and sporadic rain in the evening, went to Cartavana Swamp twice and out CES to 300m - scattered frogs calling. At ~2040h David DeSanti (formerly Point Reyes Bird Observatory) encountered a ~1m Bothrops asper crawling on the sidewalk at the River Station. It struck
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Heene, Ht. 1989 July 7 (continued) Jaura (cleaning woman) showed me a Corallus annulatus coiled tightly between a rafter and the eve of the porch in front of the main AC laboratory. When I horked it down the snake tried to crawl away, fairly rapidly for a boid, but when I swung it between my legs it bit my pants and continued trying to bite while I restrained it behind the head. Snake is very chocolate brown, in contrast to the two brick red juveniles and large pale sandy adult I've seen previously. The boa (240g, 100S + 195, ??) was in a compact, circular coil w/head over the edge, facing out from the building - thus in a more or less typical Corallus posture, except in an approximately horizontal plane perhaps caused by its size relative to the beam on which it was resting. David and Billie Hardy arrived before noon. After dinner, ~2000-2200, Dave and I walked to CES 700 and back, down to the Sura Trail, and over to the Contarara boardwalk. At ~20:00h we located a young adult Lachesis muta at Sura 175 m, coiled about on the S side of the trail - presumably a snake Nancy Greig saw recently at ~150 m on this trail. The snake was in the open cleared border but near forest edge, facing the boardwalk and I think w/in striking distance. It was alert - tongue flicked and oriented w/ head when I walked nearby or set off a camera flash. I was able to hook it into a garbage can on first try w/out difficulty.
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Greene, H. 1989 July 7 (continued) although the snake maintained a striking coil and was orienting to me as I lowered it into the can. ~2/40h Dave spotted a large adult Leptophis ahactulla asleep ~3m above the water in a small tree, perhaps 4-6 m from the boardwalk. The snake was in a loose coil, head oriented into the tree. Soon thereafter, near the eastern boundary of the swamp, we found a very large adult leptodeira septentrionalis actively hunting frogs. The snake was ~4m above the water in a slender, sparsely vegetated tree or bush. It was descending a branch, almost vertical and not much larger in diameter than the snake. The movements were slow, the head kept close to the branch surface, and there were numerous short lateral movements. At one point it appeared to be pressing or poking at a patch of moss. At first I could see only the ventral side of this snake and thought it was Ineophis inornatus - but then realized the body was a little too heavy and the belly more yellow or even slightly rose, and eventually got a good look through binoculars at the head and dorsal pattern. Frogs seen include Hyla graciosa and 2 Agalychnis saltator, and others were calling. When I checked again at 22:20h the leptodeira was still searching slowly, but ascending and ~1-1.5m higher in the tree.
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Greene, H. 1989 July 8 Cool and cloudy, then sun after dawn. At 0615 hr the leptophis ahaetulla we saw last night in the swamp was not to be seen. Substantial rain starting by approx 8:30-0900, so we worked in the lab. Yesterday one of Dough Jevy's Earthwatch people perfectly described to me the color pattern of Pliocercus euryzonus (actually just placed in Urotheca by Savage & Grotter) and said he saw 2 on July 6, after dark at either end of the Cantarara swamp. From approx 1430-1600 hr Dave Hardy and I walked out the CES to LOC 450m, where Robert Marquis (U. Missouri - St. Louis) saw a large Bothrops nasutus this AM -- it had been on the path, then crawled onto an old fallen log. We failed to find it, but on the way out Dave spotted a B. nasutus that I walked over. It was a little snake (2014 20 mm, 8.3g) and coiled in dead center of the boardwalk, next to a leaf, and perpendicular to the trail. The snake was in a tight coil w/ head up on outer coil & neck in S; stomach empty. I was due to lift it into a bag w/ forceps w/out disturbing it, but when I tubed the snake for palpation it squirmed about its long axis, ejected a considerable quantity of clear liquid from its cloaca, and bit at the tube sides repeatedly. Dave Hardy and I walked through the Cantarara Swamp and out to CCC approx 700m from approx 2030-2200h, after I gave a talk to the OTS agroecology course. On the
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Greene, IA 1989 July 8 (continued) way out, ~2100 hr, we saw an adult “”shortode”” insornatus lying ~1.6 m above wet ground on the W. edge of the swamp on palm leaves. A few minutes later we saw a large adult leptodeira septentrionalis crawling slowly at the same height in the same tree as last night. On the way back couldn't see the leptodeira, but checked the shortodes insornatus ( 690 +155 mm, 32 g) - gravid ? from which I palped a freshly head-first ingested “”Hyla eleuchera””, gravid ? (S-V 31 mm, head-width 11 mm, 2.4 g). July 9 San Jose, San Jose Prov., Costa Rica arrived here ~1100 hr, w/ a room at the Hotel Johnson, after a bus ride via Braulio Carrillo National Park. Just W. of Rio Frio the bridge is out, so everyone exited one bus and hotted across an old foot bridge to catch another in the town. w/ Alejandro Solizano, met Ardell Mitchell (Dallas Zoo) at the airport. July 10 La Selva Biological Station, Heredia Prov., Costa Rica arrived here ~11:00 hr w/ Ardell on the OTS car. Dave Hardy had gone out last night but got nothing. After lunch we anesthetized the yz & Lachesis muta caught a few days ago on The Sura Trail, 1235+120 mm, 995 g. clipped right half of snake's 3rd ventral anterior to anal plate. She has longitudinal
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Greene, H. 1989 July 10 mid-ventral scars on #'s 24, 31, 65, and 110-113 (continued) Starting from the anal plate (as "0"), no evidence of external injuries. We implanted a Telonics Transmitter (27.8g), 151.270 mhz. No apparent problems. On the 8th she defecated a large quantity of spiney rodent fur. We watched her for an hour or so after, during which she was slowly recovering responses, and at one time a gentle nudge provoked tail elevation and slight curl; -a response I saw in an adult once after handling. Also, as she was anesthetized the snake hissed repeatedly in a manner that people were hit several feet away. After dinner Dave and Ardell and I walked out the CES to 700m and to the Cantarana Swaps via Sendero Sura, but saw nothing save frogs. July 11 at 0800 we released the Lachesis muta at the capture site and left her immobile and in an alert coil; later Billie Hardy reported that w/in an hour the snake was not to be seen. Dave and Ardell and I walked around the Loop Trail, then out to Holdridge #150m in an unsuccessful attempt to find a "very fat" Bothrops marutus that Jacks Ewell saw there yesterday. At 20830hr a Natrix capito hopped several times across our path, and expanded its dewlap when Dave seized it (ccc 50). At lunch Rocio Jopez brought me an injured juvenile Ninia maculata
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Greer, H. 1989 July 11 (continued) that a visitor found on a cement path in the lab clearing at approx 1200 hr noon (122+31m, 1-2g), just before lunch Dave and Andell and I used a receiver to locate the Lachesis muta now coiled under a small plant and a few meters in shade (from where we released her. I walked very near before locating her visually, yet she simply remained immobile w/ head up. At 1310hr Andell found an adult Scaphiodontophis venustissimus (4/5+ 125+? mm, 43.5g, ?) crawling across a cement path at the edge of the lab clearing in forest shade. Response to handling was rapid erratic crawling, w/ jerking of the incomplete tail. No musks or biting. At 2145 hr we found the Lachesis muta still under the plant, after we had walked out to CES 700 m -- caught only an Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri (8g) in litter on the Sendero Siera. July 12 Rained all night. At 0604 hr found the Lachesis muta under the plant, and again at approx 1045 hr. In between we walked approx 200 m out into the forest at CES 500 looking unsuccessfully for Lachesis. At 1310 hr a workman showed me a small, brightly colored Micrurus nigricinctus under a tractor wheel (4.0g, 265+25), w/ Dave and Andell, walked out CCC to Camino Central, via El Suampo to Sendero Holdridge and back in. Found a cat scat, evidently containing Tayassu, at CCC 220. At approx 1930 hr Billie Hardy
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Greene, H. 1989 July 12 (continued) found a Ninia sebae on a sidewalk in the lab clearing (8.3g, 255+91 mm). From ~2030-2130h we walked around the Cantasara swamp. Found a large Urotheca everza (437+306, 55g) "nosing" in leaf litter beneath palms a few (<20)m from the water edge. It thrashed wildly and repeatedly coiled its tail in tight loops on my hand. I found a Leptophis ahaetulla (800+530 mm, ?, 74g) asleep on leaves at the tip of a sapling ~5m above ground and within 10m of the swamp water edge. She regurgitated 3 Hyla elaechroa: 2.8g, 38mm, +f, ?; 1.8g, 36mm, +f, ?; 1.2g, 30mm, hf, ?, Then an Leptophis nebulosus (460+295 mm, 13.5g) asleep on a palm, stretched out w/ some loose curves. Squirmed, wrusked when seized; later gaped in bag. Regurgitated a Hyla elaechroa (29mm ?, 1.6g, hf). July 13 Rained during the night, and lightly during the morning. Someone (Rob & Ron) brought in a little Bothrops nasutus (216+21 mm, 9g) from leaf litter near the lab clearing. From 1330-1500 I walked around CCH & CCC - sunny - but saw only 1 Eleutherodactylus, at 1500h Ardell was shown an Leptophis depressirostris that had been found swallowing a frog on sidewalk in the lab clearing (607+371, 63g) - from which I palped an Eleutherodactylus (SV 29, 2.1g) that had been
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Greene, H. 1989 July 14 Some rain during the night and on the way to breakfast - a cool, dreary morning. Found the Leptophis aequalula from the swamp dead, so picked it. Also the Sceloporhis from Pava's, which had an infected eye and a couple of water blisters. It had defecated again and segments and one leg w/ "claw" (as centipede) were clearly visible under a scope. Forgot to mention earlier 1) a few nights ago Dare and I saw an armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) on the CCC (same general area where Feynman Godinas lives and I saw the injured one on a previous trip); 2) last night Ardell saw a large Didelphis marsupialis cross ahead of us on the CES; and 3) a few nights ago on the CES I spotted an adult Greater Tinamou roosting on a horizontal branch ~ 8-10 m above the ground and ~ 1 m out from the tree trunk. Weights and measurements of two live Eleutherodactylus: 1) E. fitzingeri, SV 47 mm, 8 g; 2) E. transfordi, SV 21 mm, 1.2 g. From ~1430-1700 h Ardell and I walked through the Arboretum and out the Sendero Sura to LOC, then to Sendero Atajo out to the Rio Sarapiqui, and back to the station via CES. Hot and humid. At 1450 h we found an adult ? Bothrops nasutus at Sendero Sura 905 m - she appeared extremely thin and evidently recently parturient, so we only nudged her off the trail rather than add stress by handling her. Picked up cat scat at Sura 690 m and Atajo 550 m, then 1 old and 2
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Greene, H. 1989 July 14 (continued) fresh otter (Lutra longicaudus) seats on the traditional otter rock on the Rio Sarapiqui, near the end of the Sendero Atajo. Ardell spotted an otter in the broad area of riffles just down stream, and we watched it for x/10 minutes. Throughout that time the otter was always underwater - presumably hunting - or upright out of the water to shoulder lord and eating. Dives seem to last 5-15 seconds, and about that same time was spent eating. Sometimes a food item was held in a paw briefly, but most pre-swallowing involved lots of chewing w/ the mouth visibly open. All prey appeared to be crustaceans, and once an item flipped or slipped out and through the air into the water. I was struck by how easily visible the otter was; it always faced into the late afternoon sun, to my back, and appeared very light colored around the chest and chin. After dinner, Dane and Billie went out the CES to 700m but saw only a probable Barycynon gabbi. Ardell, Ana Gonz, and I went through the Cartanara to CCC 700m. As we returned Ardell spotted an adult, white and black banded Urotheca (Pleiocercus) evezana immobile beside the trail. It began violent crawtting at his approach, then thrash as he pincered it w/ his hand. This was at 2058m. When I tried to palp the snake at 2130m in the
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Greene, H. 1989 July 14 (continued) lab, it squirmed rapidly, coiled its incomplete but well healed tail around my fingers, and snapped off a segment. There was considerable bleeding from the proximal tail segment (remaining on the snake), and ~15-20 minutes later I was able to measure ~1 cc of blood in the plastic bag in which I immediately placed the snake. The tail flipped from my hand to the floor and thrashed rapidly and sinusly, and I started a stopwatch w/in 1-2 seconds of the break. Its movements were very regular and resulted in alternate flexion and coiling into a tight circle; the proximal end simply arched back and forth, but the distal end always marked very symmetrical S-curves. So, a series for the proximal end looked like: 71/1716. A series for the distal end looked like this: 02J/1605, after 5 minutes and 35 seconds the flexions had slowed noticeably, and for the first time flipped so the vertical surface was uppermost. At 8 minutes and 55 seconds the flexions began to be interrupted by brief pauses. At 9? minutes and 58 seconds, 11:29, 12:30, 13:44 movements only resumed after I pinched the tail. At 13 minutes and 59 seconds there was no evokable movement. The shed tail piece was 155 mm long, and weighed 5.4 g. The remainder of the snake wt. 43g; 425+82mm. at ~2230h I found the
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Greene, H. 1989 July 14 (continued) Lachesis muta at Sura 165m sleeping - head down as before. Checked the Contarara, but found no further snakes. July 15 Cool and overcast all morning - took a map. After lunch Ardell saw a Nasua chase and almost catch (he scared it) an adult ? Basiliscus plumifrons in the lab clearing. From ~1430-1630 I looted Richard Foster, Chances? (his nephew), and Carol Fassetli (all from Partridge films - working on a snake picture) around the CCC-CCL loops, but we saw nothing. After dinner found the Lachesis muta as it has been. Dave, Ardell, Richard et al. went out after dark to CFS 700 and the Contarara but saw no snakes. Earlier (daytime) Ardell got a Bothrops nasutus near CES 500 (~480+53mm, 98g, ?-maybe gravid). July 16 From 0830-1115 hr I walked SOR-Holdridge-Suampo-Camino Gerthel to 1200m and back in via CCL and SOR. Before I left Cathy Pringle saw a small Erythrolamprus minimus (223+39mm, 5.2g) cross the sidewalk into palm litter in the lab clearing. When held it thrashed, tail coiled, expelled cloacal liquid, and elevated its flattened head and neck. At 0852 hr I caught an adult ? Spilotes pullatus (1760+590mm, 780g) just before the origin of SHO or SOR. The snake extended out of woods onto the trail w/ its entire body in fight spirals! The resemblance to
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Freeze, It. 1989 July 13 swallowed head-first. At dinner Rodolfo Revolto gave (continued) me an Erythrolamprus poiesis (20.5 g, 364+/-1/4+/-?.mm) he found this afternoon near the lab cleaning. The snake crawls frantically, and when restrained elevates the curled tail, then pokes the hand w/ it. During repeated restraint for [illegible] photography it did not attempt to bite. The tail seems recently cut off. After dinner, Ardell, Silvia Barahona (U.C.R.) and I walked to CES 700 and saw only a large Azlyochmis callidryas walking on a slender (~5 mm) branch of vine, ~3 m above the ground - its blue and yellow flank strips and red eyes very evident in my light beam. David and Billie Hard walked to ~700 m on the CCC and both through the Cartarara Swamp. They saw a ~4 ft. Bothrops asper coiled beside the trail at CCC 440m - it remained still during a couple of minutes of photography, then crawled into the forest. They brought in a Seplodeia septentrionalis from the Cartarara Swamp (25g, 530+/-195 mm). Found the Lachesis muta in same place, head not up and dart, at ~2130h. At x~2200 h an undergrad. from U. Florida (Marcie) showed me a
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There, lt. 1987 July 16 (continued) a root was impressive, and I don't think the snake did it in response to my approach. In fact, it appeared unaware of me until I touched its neck w/ my hook. When seized it bit repeatedly, holding on and chewing a few seconds before release, and vibrated its tail strongly for a considerable portion of its length, also inflated neck when held. at 0908hr, SHO 700 m, a Leucopetris semifluores flow across the trail from a low branch and landed x 10m up on a branch facing away from me - was it hunty by the trail for reptiles? at 0928hr, at x SUH 600m, where the trail parallels a stream, an adult Basiliscus plumifrons jumped in the water x 15 m ahead of one, then ran x 10 m and parallel to the bank before emerging. Dave Hardy got a leptophis nebulosus at CES 500, on a pole (455+297mm, 12g), Ardell found another Bothrops marutus at the same place (256+29 mm, 17g). Richard Foster saw what was clearly an adult Larpropeltis triangulum on the Joop Trail, but it escaped in litter. I gave an evening talk on tropical predators to a field course run by Cathy Pingle and Jim Afolta from the UCB Botanical Garden. Afterward, Dave Hardy found an Eleutherodactylus fitzingeri (SV 47mm, 8.5g) on the sidewalk - feel it
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Dicere, H. 1989 July 16 (continued) To the black-and-orange Urotheca . At 2045 h Deborah Clarke showed Ridell for a Sibon melulatta (♀ 490+166 mm , 23g ) crawling across the sidewalk. When handled the snake retracted into an exaggerated S-coil w/ quadrants spread, jerky false strikes, and cloacal discharge. At 2115 h Ridell found an Dnantodes cerchioa (♂40+280 mm♂, 18.5g ) in leaf litter during heavy rain, at CES 550 m - only a cloacal discharge when handled. At ≈ 2200 h Richard Foster and Carol Farnelli took Ridell and I to an adult ♀ Bothrops asper (1563+200 mm , 1.75 kg ) on a slope beside concrete steps at the SE side of the Cartancara Swamps. The snake was in a loose coil, w/ head and neck raised ≈ 20-30 cm and an angle of ≈ 60°, immobile. Ridell and I had no trouble getting her in a garbage can using two hooks. Never stuck - always tried to crawl away. July 17 Alejandro Solizano arrived at noon, and we walked in the afternoon out SOR-SHO-SUA and back by way of CCC. No snakes. After dinner Alejandro and Ridell and I walked out to CES 700, and caught an Dnantodes cerchioa (♂ 681+315 mm , 14.5g ) at CES 65 m, 2045 h, crawling in leaf litter - no defensive behaviors. July 18 The temporal continues - days of cool weather and lots of rain throughout the day and night. This morning we anesthetized the big ♀ Bothrops asper
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"Greer, H. 1989 July 18 (continued) clipped 3rd vertical ant. to oval plate, on snake's left) to measure and otherwise examine her. Ardell got her up in a tube w/out difficulty. Noted two old scars, one anterior on left side neck, the other on L side of posterior body - the latter w/ obvious broken ribs. In the afternoon Alejandros and walked to Camino Cential 1300 m and spent some time off trail in what seemed like excellent Lacerta habitat. We went out CCC and back CCH, saw only a possible Masticodygas or Dendrophidion that escape under a still palm. At 1930 hrs Carol Farnetti led me to an adult ? Bothrops asper (1700 + 234 mm, 2.05 kg) coiled beside the trail at CES ~100m. She was perpendicular to and facing the trail, w/ head out over coil and parallel to ground - very nicely aimed at the roadwall. Had to hook her into a can by myself (Ardell and Alejandro elsewhere), and once she got into the woods a few meters, afterwards I led 10 students of a UCB Botanical Garden course on a nightwalk to SOC ~500, then to Cantarana - saw only 2 sleepy Norops limifrons on leaves, and frogs. July 19 after lunch we anesthetized and examined the second ? B. asper (clipped 4th vertical, on snake's left) - she started up the tape and then shot up almost to the top before I grabbed her! We noted no external injuries, but her left fang was broken several mm above the tip.
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Greene, H. 1989 August 13 Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona arrived here ≈1430 hr after a roundabout trip across the Sierra Nevada, Nevada, and southern Utah - I had forgotten how spectacular the red cliffs around Bryce Canyon look in afternoon sun. Billie Hardy has a friend staying w/her at their place, so I will stay w/ Barney Torberlin at Vince Roth's house. Drove up Lone Creek Canyon ≈1730 hr and stopped to chat w/ Kim Murphy, the local game warden. Told me about shooting a deer from horseback, w/ a .30-30, in the Peloncillos years ago. After dinner I road hunted from ≈ 1900 - 2200 hr: out to the Sistrurus catenatus site on Hwy 80, made 2 passes there, then back and up Lone Creek Canyon to SWRS and back. Before dark I saw a large Crotalus atrox start onto the road just east of Portal, then rapidly crawl back off. A few minutes later, a very reddish subadult was crawling in the center, and I moved it off. Caught an adult C. scutulatus (no food in SC, gave snake to Barney) 5.1 mi E. Portal at 1930 hr. Saw fresh DOR Thamnophis marcianus 4.5 mi SW (1945hr) and 6.4mi SW State Line Rd. on Hwy 80, and shortly thereafter a freshly hit Crotalus scutulatus that I saved. On the way back a live Hapsoropeltis gutulus and then a Crotalus molossus crawling off
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Greene, H. 1989 August 13 Cave Creek Rd. just as it started raining. All (Continued) evening there were heavy electrical storms on the surrounding mountain ranges. Rained into the evening. August 14 Arranged things for surgery tomorrow, talked to David Hardy in Costa Rica, and checked two drift fences on the Paradise Rd. w/ Barney Torberlin. From ~1900-2230 I road hunted out Portal Rd & Hwy 80, made two passes over the Sistrum site, and went up the canyon to SWRS. Saw 6 snakes: 2 neonate Crotalus scutulatus, an adult Pituophis malanderson (2028h) at the Sistrum site bridge (21.4 mi SW State Line) and a neonate Pituophis on the Portal Rd. (2211 h), and two adult C. scutulatus (one on State Line Rd. and one preserved). August 15 At 0940 hr Bryan Jennings (UCSB undergraduate) and I missed an adult Masticophis bilineatus at on Cave Creek Rd a few 100 m NE of the Hardys turnoff -- it was immobile on the road when first spotted, but rapidly slid off and we couldn't find it in the mesquite. At 1120hr I spotted a subadult Elgaria leinzi rapidly undulating off the edge of Barney Torberlin's driveway in Portal. Operated on a pair of Crotalus molossus found by Tony Snel in the same sycamore grove where we began tracking the male blacktail last year -- surgeries seemed to go fine, Barney and Tony and I ate an early dinner and were at the Sistrum bridge site, 21.4 mi SW
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Greene, H. 1989 August 15 of State Line Rd on Aug 80, by 1900hr and we walked (continued) around W of the Hwy for approx 1 hour. The site is very reminiscent of the Kansas Flint Hills locality where I first saw Sistrurus in 1963 - gently rolling grassy hills, cut by a shallow winding dry gully w/ small rock outcrops and many volcanic rocks over the landscape. Many rocks are well-embedded, but some are flat and liftable. In the past, they've seen C. atrox, C. scutulatus, Sonora, Euneces obsolitus, Holbrookia maculata, Cnemidophorus uniparens here, and there is a report of Lampropeltis triangulum. There are Nectoma nests in the rock outcrop, and as Tony looked into the first one he saw an active Elgaria leizgi that escaped into the tangle of sticks! Only other keep was an adult Crotaphytus collaris I found sleeping under a small flat rock. We got 7 snakes road hunting, 2 Crotalus scutulatus, 2 C. atrox, 1 Tantilla nigriceps, 1 Lampropeltis getulus, and 1 Micrurus emygdophis - between approx 2000-2230 hr. We had driven out to Bernardino, made two passes between there and Rucker Canyon Rd., gone back up to SWRS, and then out the Portal Rd approx 3 miles before returning to Barney's home. August 16 at 1130hr I caught an adult Masticophis bilineatus on Cave Creek Rd, at a place where there is open grassy "parkland" on one side and oak woodland.
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Greene, H. 1989 August 16 (continued) on the other. Snake was immobile in a sun patch, and only dashed off the road as I approached on foot. Squirmed and bit when seized. At approx 1230h we released the Crotalus molossus at their original capture site, a Necturus nest built into the side of a pile of drifted branches in the canyon bottom. Barney Tomberlin and I drove to Bernardino and back between approx 1600-1840 h. At 1610h we found an adult Crotalus scutulatus crossing State Line Rd. There was a very DOR Heterodon nasicus adult on Hwy 80 at Bernardino, hit today since it wasn't there last night. From approx 1630-1800 h Barney ad I walked up to the old cinder mine, 22.2 mi SW State Line Rd on Hwy 80, W of the Hwy. The ground is muddy and there is standing water in places; shy overcast, humid, almost cool. We caught 3 Sceloporus undulatus, 1 Cnemidophorus uniparens, and a pair of Cryptophytus collaris under rocks and old boards. Barney spotted a small Phrynosoma douglasii (or modestum?) crawling among small rocks in open ground; piece of shedding skin around head. Several Sceloporus escaped because they dove into the bases of "brunch grass" (?) when startled under rocks. After preserving the lizards and a fast dinner, I road hunted to Bernardino and back, up to SWRS, out to 2 mi E. of Portal, and
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Alcee, H. 1989 August 16 back to Barney's house, from ~2000-2240 h. Until (continued) ~2200h the sky was exceptionally dark, due to a full lunar eclipse and heavy cloud cover. This plus large electrical storms all around the valleys made the night spectacular. Saw a neonate Crotalus (2201h) and subadult Pitophis melanoleucus (2207h) on the Portal Rd, nothing at the Sistrurus site on two passes, and only a Thamnophis marciatus on Hwy 80. Got an adult Lampropeltis getulus at 1.6mi NW Hwy 80 on State Line Rd, at 2135h - the snake was crawling as truck approached, and tried to crawl away rapidly as I got close. Only response to handling was to squirm - but it later crawled through the snake bag and escaped in Barney's house. Got three snakes on the Portal Rd: a Tantilla nigriceps that squirmed w/ body rigid and chewed my finger repeatedly; two adult, very nasty Crotalus scutulatus (4.5 mi E. of Portal at 2153h, very yellow; 2.1 mi E of Portal, 2200h); and a neonate Trimorphodon biscutatus that only squirmed when handled. August 17 Spent an hour or so w/ Diane Wagner (former UCB undergrad, now at Princeton U.) at her butterfly study site E. of Portal. At ~1115h we used telemetry to locate the two Crotalus molossus, ~50-60m uphill from where they were released yesterday. The snakes were lying together under a flat-sloping boulder,
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Greene, H. 1989 August 17 under thick mesquite near Paradise Rd. The F was (continued) in a tight flat coil in blotched sun, w/ rattle helder. The M was part in sun (head and tail), partly hidden under the boulder. An impressive sight! after a couple of minutes, the M clicked his rattle (we were ~2-3 m away) and pulled back under the rock. at ~1400 h, a Spasmophilus variegatus moved away from the boulder as I approached - unclear if it was started by my approach or behaving nervously because of the snakes. Now the two snakes are together under edge of the boulder, heads adjacent and pointing out in sun. I took some photos, and eventually the M rattled briefly and withdrew under the rock. When I checked again at 1645 h it was dark cloudy and cool, and I could only see the edge of the M's coil. I gave a talk at the SWRS after dinner, and road hunted from there to 2 mi E of Portal and back to Barney's at 2230h - saw nothing. There was a heavy thunder storm during my talk, and afterwards Wade Shebrooke (SWRS Director) took out on a narrow foot bridge over the Middle Fork of Cave Creek. The stream was in flood and I could hear a roar of boulders being rolled in the stream - as if they were in a rotating drum! When I reached Barney's house, the stream in front of his house was high enough that I elected
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Greene, H. 1989 August 17 To park and walk across on the foot bridge (continued) rather than drive across. August 18 Spent the morning picking road kills Barney had frozen for me. At ~1400 hr located both Crotales molossus signals under the same boulder and could see an edge of the J's coil. Good rain started ~1430hr.
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Greene, H. 1989 October 19 Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona Arrived here at 2300hr last night, having flown in from San Francisco via Salt Lake City and picked up David Hardy's jeep at the Tucson Airport. Surprised I was able to travel, because at 1704 hr on the 17th we had a ~7.0 earthquake and the airport was closed for a few hours. This AM Barney Torberlin and I stopped on the Paradise Rd ~1.5 mi W of Portal in shrub, and I found an adult Granidophorus uniparens inactive and dirt crusted in a burrow under a small rock. Then we checked for the two telemetered Crotalus molossus, but they were not visible where he most recently saw them. Then we drove to the Krenz Ranch on Rucker Canyon Rd and obtained permission to look for herps from Mr. Krenz' sister-in-law, a Mrs. White. We drove ~2-3 km down a dirt track that extends out into the range ~5 km from Rucker Canyon Rd & ~2.5 mi W of Hwy 80. Then back to the backsides of two connected hills w/ rock outcrops that we explored earlier this year. I saw 1 hatchling Sceloporus undulatus, active on a rock outcrop, and Barney saw a Chrosaurus ornatus. A large Canis latrans loped ahead of us up the hill and over it, pausing every few dozen meters to stand in profile, ears up and face us for a few seconds. At 1230hr as I clambered over rocks in grass beside a >1m diameter boulder, I heard a
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Greene, H. 1989 October, 19 (continued) rattled and looked back to see a subadult Crotalus atrox where I just stopped, drawing under the boulder. Hooked it out and eventually bagged it w/ Barney's grab stick. Snake was very riled: body flattened, it struck repeatedly and wildly, and at least twice bit the snake bag. I was impressed that the mouth was widely gaped during the strikes. Next we drove to Bernardino to watch for Sistrurus and picked up a DOR Heterodon nasicus that I thought from the car was a Sistrurus because of its dark pattern. Found a still thrashing DOR Pituophis melanolaeus on the highway back to State Jer6 Rd. After lunch I returned to the Crotalus moosauus site in Paradise Rd., and found our delineated pair both basking by the sheltering rocks at which they've recently been sighted -- some several dozen meters apart.
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