Field notes, v1307
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Greene, H. 1990 August 12 We also processed all accumulated rattles, (continued) using vapor anesthetic, at the rate of ≈ 4/hour. August 13 Scattered rain and cool all day, as I drove to Tucson - took Claudia to the airport for her return to Berkeley and work, then picked up radio and did laundry at the Hardys' house there. Drove back via Hwy 666 from 1700-2130 hr in scattered showers. Lots of lizards on the road, but only snake a Lampropeltis getulus crawling across U.S. 80 near the State line. Dave Hardy had an exciting day: he located Crotalus molossus #3 a short distance (few meters) down slope from yesterday's awe coiled under low acacia, then heard a rattle clicks once or twice and found another male 30 dorsal body blotches. (878 + 71 mm, 400g, 9 segments including button). Then he backed off a culvert and had to have a few twerks from Road Forks lift him out. August 14 This morning started sunny and partly cloudy. We found C. molossus #3 a few meters from yesterday's spot, coiled among acacias in a light coil, tail concealed, head and neck in an S-coil w/head horizontal and sticking out over outer coil - seemingly an arbush posture. Released F#5 in front, and she crawled ≈ 1 meter then coiled under dense brush ≈ 1m from male #3. Neither rattled. This was ≈ 0844 hr. At 0934 hr we found male #1 out west of yesterday's crevice and ≈ 1.5m from it.