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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,