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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.