Field notes, v1307
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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