Field notes, v1307
Page 175
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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.