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Freese, H
1990
August 21 (continued)
which I palpated a partially digested Cnemidophorus
mbox. Wade brought me an adult C. inornatus
from SWRS to examine: ?, empty stomach,
872 + 63 mm, 40g, 6 segments (parallel and
incomplete. Forgot to sverlim that yesterday
as I drove up to the snake sight site in the AM
there was a big pile of reddish feces w/apple
chunks in it, courtesy of Ursus americanus, on
the pared road between the Hankys' house and
dirt turnoff to Paradise - then another, also
mid-road, x 1/2 mile toward Paradise which
I photographed. This prompted Diane and I to
ask: Why did the bear shit in the road?
Cause he couldn't make it to the other side!
August 22
Joined up with Alden Hayes and two of his
brothers to see the Albert Fink site - it's an
adobe ruin x400m or less upstream from the
duffner pullout, on the first terrace - just
one corner left now, but you can still make out
the adobe brick and mortar lines. At 0850h
we found C. inornatus #3 in a compact coil in
a prickly pear on the NE bank of the side
branch of Silver Creek that flows under the road
at the Def/ferry place; his tail was invisible, he'd
up on an outer coil. At 0910h as I approached #3
for photos he raised into a somewhat elevated S-coil
(still in among the Opuntia pads), rattled for x2 Secs,