Field notes, v1307
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Greene, H. 1990 October 26 (continued) facing rock faces along the road to the ruin. "Site #1" was 1m above ground in a hidden flake crevice, vertical, ~5cm wide & 8cm tall. It contained a cluster of 12 white adherent fresh eggs in a mass ~5cm long and 1.5 cm wide, vertical in the crevice and arranged horizontally stacked. There were 21 old eggs, some obviously hatched, covered in dirt and interspersed w/ roots. "Site #2" was in red dirt among rocks on the road cut wall, ~ 1/2 m above road. This site had 19 largely adherent fresh white eggs w/ advanced embryos that look like Adolphus sp., and 31 old eggs - red dirty and grown threw w/ roots. We saved all eggs (HWG-2098-2101). Measurements for eggs (fresh) at "Site #1" are 8.3x15.6mm, 8.4x14.5mm, 8.3 x 15.0 mm, 8.3 x 15.0 mm, 8.3 x 14.4 mm; for fresh eggs from "Site #2" are 11.7 x 20.9 mm, 11.1x 15.6mm, 11.1 x 15.5 mm, 11.6 x 15.6 mm [last 3 adherent], 10.5 x 16.2mm 10.1 x 16.1 mm, 11.1 x 17.8mm, 12.3 x 20.4mm. The ♀ I grabbed (HWG-2096) has 4 large shelled eggs in her, suggesting 4-8 females nested at each site w/in a short time. At ~1730h we drove w/ car out the same north-running ridge and then down the NW side of it 3-4 km to an old mine, just above where a stream crosses the road. Bob and I entered the cave (from which water flows) a few meters looking for snakes. It is an eerie place, the entrance shrouded in vegetation. The rock face over the entrance (which is about my height)