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Greene, H.
1992
May 20 (continued)
After dinner we processed the new Crotalus molossus
(δ, 821+60 mm, 343 g, 9 rattle segments including button)
and implanted a transmitter (148.450) in him. Then
drove over to the Animas Rd. (Hwy 9?) and released the
Rhinocaulus and Scaphiopus that Bill had photographed.
May 21
Brief rain ~0400h. It has rained every afternoon &
evening we've been here, sunny and partly cloudy in
the mornings - just like summer monsoon season,
except not as hot. Supposedly this has been a
regular monsoon storm system for climatic years,
and the Hardy's cannot remember a spring here this
wet. at 0815h Bill and I located C. molossus #5's
signal then saw him coiled ~30 cm back in the same
hole as yesterday, skin still dull and dull. At
0820h Bill found a small Hypsiglena torquata
under a dead agave at a point on the road near where
at 0830h we got C. molossus #9's signal from
the same rat nest as yesterday. We released
C. molossus #11 downslope from where he was
captured yesterday, transmitter keeping. At 0900h,
I walked w/in 2 m of C. atrox #1 and first
heard him rattle from underneath an acacia
~ 50-75m N of yesterday's site and 150-200m
W of Jeff Gee's house. We packed up, met
Barney Torberlin and Tony Swall at the Portal
Store for breakfast, and headed for Texas.