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Hesse, H.
1991
August 17 (continued) main stream course (day) to say he'd found another,
smaller adult ♂ C. willardi. There are oak leaves everywhere here, and the color pattern of these snakes is indeed difficult
to see against them. In the meantime we saw 7 C. legitus
including 4 juveniles, evidently neonates—all in rocks rubble;
and 2 adult Thamnophis cyrtopsis. We parked near a large stock tank full of bullfrogs, from which extends a large green seepage plane. We left by #100hr and went
to a swanky cafe in Bisbee to celebrate Kelly's 25th birthday - I took the 2 willardi in w/ me, in a "fanny
pack", and we joked about "sir, could you check your ridgenosed rattlers at the door." Back at the Hardys, we
processed the two snakes under light anesthesia, and I
palped a rodent out that had been swallowed head-first.
Because of the big fleshy hind feet I mistook the prey
for a Netoma but later realized from the tail, forefoot,
and skull it is a Thamnophis.
Total Cochise Co. Arizona
August 18 at 0805 hr we released Crotalus molossus #9 off the road
near his capture site. At 0815 hr we found C. molossus
#3, ~ 80 m NW of where Dave saw him on August
16. The snake was coiled and "dashed" off an open
spot into acacia w/out rattling. At 0923 hr C molossus
#8 is at the W. end of the main ridge, just before it
drops to a shallow saddle ~ 150 m NE of the
red rock outcrop where he retreated soon after surgery.
The snake was in dense shade of shrubs under a