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Greese, H.
1990
October 30
eating sort of meal to meal w/ jam and Tom a food
(continued) that suddenly appears. Over breakfast of bread,
margarine, and jam sandwiches, we joke about
dressing up as a giant chameleon (a la the centipede
costume in "Bay to Brethers") and denouying a local
village on Halloween. From 1030-1230h I walked out the ridge
road toward the house ruins we searched a few days ago,
hoping there would be snakes basking in the bright sun. At
1045h I spotted an Adolpus ~3m above ground on a fallen
tree trunk ~25 cm in diameter on an east-facing slope,
perpendicular to the late morning sun; it dashed down
the trunk and out of sight at my approach to 4 m. At 1055h
a ♂ (wide head) Adolpus in full sun on the east side of a
tire tree trunk (dia. ~30cm), ~30cm above the ground; dashed
around tumb and up ~4 m when I readed for it, and
~2 minutes later was headed down to original site. I
grabbled and got only two pieces of willigtail. At 1112h
an Adolpus on a stump ~10cm in diameter, and 30cm
high emergent from dense leafy low vegetation on an
east-facing road cut, body horizontal and perpendicular
to sun - the only sunny place to bask in many square
meters except on leaves (NB: which this species doesn't use
as perch); ran down into leaves as I approached to 3m.
At 1120h a gravid ♀ (narrow head, swollen abdomen) Adolpus
horizontal & perpendicular to sun on an east facing dirt
roadcut bank, ~1m above road and 40cm below grassy
lip of bank. She was a few cm from a hole 35 x 20mm.