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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