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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