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Freese, H.
1990
June 2
Rigrah Lava Flow, San Bernardino Co., California
Road hunte our old two mile stretch on National
Trail Hwy, from the railroad crossing west to the
Laric Mts RD from ~20-2200 hrs. 34 mom, hot
day, conditins seemed good - but we saw no
snakes, only a juvenile coluburus draconoides (which
ran in the dark to escape us) and an adult ♂
Colonyx variogatus.
June 3
Granite Mtns. National Reserve, San Bernardino Co., California
arrived here ~1300 hr to visit Phillipe Ecken and
Cindy Stead, the reserve managers. They have frozen
for me an adult Lichanura trivigata. The rosy boa was
found by Felicia Smith (grad student, U.C. Riverside)
deal of a head injury, coiled on top a boulder at Cave
Spring here in the Granites. We surmise a squirrel
might have killed it. Snake was fresh when found,
~ May 26-27 of this last month. The boa was frozen
and preserved in appropriately (at least) the posture
in which it was discovered.
June 4
~0800 Cindy showed me a small adult (~1.2 m)
Nastrophis flagellum in open sun, just outside their
house and near a boulder and a small tree (this
is in Granite Cove). She says she sees coachships
around the house w/ some frequency, perhaps
attracted by water. This snake had precisely the
antibien black head and neck, elevated and perpindicular
to the sun, as if basking. It seemed to see