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Greene, H.
1992
May 19 (continued) half coils, periodically loudly expelling small drops of fluid from its cloaca. Bill Brandt suggested that this works on herpetologists - the snake crawls off as they fall to the ground laughing.
May 20 at 0810h Crotalus molossus #3 was invisible at the same site as yesterday - site is in shade. At 0830h we got C. molossus #9's signal at the same not rest, snake not visible. Next the Hardys, Bill, Tony Srell, and I went up to sites below Buena Vista Lookout. First we checked the E. faciz site where on several years we've found Crotalus pricei and C. molossus (site where the bull strangled), at 1010h we spotted an adult # Crotalus molossus w/ only head and 3-4 cm of mesh extended from under a rusty piece of metal x 1.5 m2 - same piece, when once found a C. pricei w/ a Sceloporus janovii in it. I walked over a ridge and north around the top of a steep open hillside where previously I found 2 C. molossus and saw the hung bull. At 1046h under a 30cm2 rock in a flat pile of rocks facing E., I found a yearly Jan propeltis pyromelana w/ a large food bulge that feels like a Sceloporus. Only response to handling was crawling. In the meantime Tony caught a Crotalus pricei adult under a rock and several S. janovii and S. virgatus, alternately slowly and chilly or bright sun. Next we drove to the Barfoot Slide