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Greene, H.
1991
September 29 (continued) and approx 3m distant he slowly withdrew out of sight - now I wonder if he was initially exposed as we clamored up here earlier this AM. At 1135hr I found C. molossus #8 at the edge of a penicular ridge that extends N from the main ridge; he is approx 350m N of it, and maybe 650m NW of the main peak. The snake is in a tight coil against dead branches and a rock, facing an open path between it and a large grass clump - no visible food bulge and in a hunking posture. At 1215hr I located C. molossus #3 20m N of this #8 site, approx 5m down the W side of the big arroyo that runs N from the road where the pullout is. He is an open coil under a dead stump and live bush, the food lump on uphill side and in speckled sun. At 1230hr I found C. molossus #9 w/ his food lump in a hairpin coil w/ head out on top of it, both protruding a few cm out of his hole under the boulder in full sun. From approx 1725-1810hr I walked around the grassy area just E of the New Mexico State Line where there have been reputed sightings of Sistrurus catenatus. At 1748hr I spotted a large (approx 1/5m) Scolopendra (yellow-orange body, black posterior segments) seemingly feeding at the entrance of a Dipodomys spectabilis burrow. The centipede's head was invisible to me, turned into a side tunnel; its body slightly arched anteriorly and very fat. Squirmed when grasped w/ forceps. Barney Torberlin gave me a neonate Crotalus