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there, H.
1991
July 25 (continued)
I could see plant forms w/out a flashlight, there were frogs calling - Hyla exquua, Lt. elroccata - and >= 6 ? Agalychnis saltator on leaves and branches.
We saw an adult Imanbds inornatus immobile on a sappling ~ 5cm in diameter - stretched down the trunk almost straight, w/ ~ 15 cm of neck hazing out and down towards the nearby (<0.5m) water.
July 26
Rain before dawn - very hot and humid after breakfast when we released the big ? Bothrops asper - she simply crawled rapidly out of sight. I leave the station today, go back to Berkeley tomorrow.
August 3
Patel, Cochise Co., Arizona
Arrived here at the Hardys' house ~ 2030h, having left Berkeley ~ 1330 h yesterday and Barstow at 0700h this AM. Drove down Hwy 666 ~ /700-1830 h today to Douglas, hoping for Sistrurus but seeing only a pink Masticophis flagellum DOR right after I left I-10. Big storm to the NE as I drove up Hwy 80 from Douglas to Kodes, at I saw only a single Crotalus scutulatus on the road.
August 4
Went w/ Dave Hardy, Bazney Torberlin, and Tony Snell ~ 0815h and found Crotalus molossus of #3 in the center of a large bush, on the ground in a tight coil w/ head horizontal and to edge of outer loops. At 0945 h driving from the store to the Hardys' a neonate Thamnophis cystopsis crossed the road in front of us.
The Hardys left for Tucson after lunch. At 1615h, I