Field notes, v1306
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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