Field notes, v1308
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Greene, lt. 1992 March 14 = May Stopped at Pisgah Jarra Flow ≈ 0800h to release & photograph snakes. Noted that the Chiromactis, which last night in the dark only squealed and discharged cloacal contents, now coils, hisses as it strikes violently. Saw 2 nice big Throsaurus graciosa - a σ and ♀ on separate creosote bushes, each out on low dead branches barely. We left Jonathan at Pisgah where Phil Brylski will pick him up. Wats Rd., S. of I-40, San Bernardino Co., California. Bill and I drove about 2 mi down this dirt power line road on the advice of Claudia Duke, who says the area has a dense Gopherus population - but it is ≈1100h and hot and we see more. We watched a gravid Gambelia defecate while paused in the middle of the road; her head and foreparts were elevated, back bowed down, and tail arched high just posterior to the vent - for this reason we could easily see the bright orange underside of her tail. We walled around to some scattered yuccas and I found a small adult Hypsylora torquata between the underside of a yuccaloz and its separated banks. We arrived in Tucson ≈ 2030h, after joining the Tucson Mtn. Park and Dinner - several Bubo punctatus σ's calling around the Hardys' swimming pool. March 15 Spent the day at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and shopping in Tucson. March 16 Little Scotia Canyon, (Huachuca) Mtns. Cochise Co., Arizona The 3 of us arrived here ≈ 0800h w/ Fred Wilson & Phil Rubei to check on a radio-tagged Crotalus willardi , implanted by