Field notes, v1308
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Hearn, H. 1991 August 20 up a chair for the Hardys' daughter and to visit the (continued) Desert Museum, then made to her grandmother's in Santa Barbara by approx 1000 hrs. August 21 Back to Berkeley. Postal, Cochise Co., Arizona September 27 Arrived here approx 1530 hrs, having flown from Berkeley to Tucson this AM, then rented a car at the airport. Stopped briefly to see Barney Tomberlin, then Sarah Schmidt at the U.S. Forest Service station in Care Creek Canyon. At 1620 hrs I located Grotalus molossus ♀ #10, SE and across the road from "Pole 1" and approx 100m NW of "Pole 8". She was in partial shade of dense acacia, on the sunny sides of a plant and facing a little clear path, with head upward and parallel to her light body coils (as if hunting). At 1701 hrs I found G. molossus ♂ #9 3m E. of Dave's flag from September 21. He is extended out from under the base of a dead agave, tail still hidden, w/ foreparts in a loose coil and an obvious food bulge; head tilted up. September 28 Indian Creek Canyon, Animas Mtns., Hidalgo Co., New Mexico We arrived here approx 0930 hrs (MDST), being Barney Tomberlin, Tony Snell, their friends Jeff and Kevin, and me. We met up w/ a group from New Mexico Game and Fish headed by Charlie Paine. They have various snakes caught the last few days, and I photographed the redder of two Grotalus willardi obscurus (374 + 38 mm, ♀, 55 g). I palpated a 6.2 g remnant of a juvenile Peromyscus, swallowed head-first from