Field notes, v1308
Page 191
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Greene, AZ 1992 May 24 Chiricahua Mtns, Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona arrived back here x 1900h, having left Texas at 0800h local time and driven x 800 miles. I delivered Bell Branch to Jim Murphy at the Dallas Zoo and picked up an Atheris superciliosa they gave me. Barney Torbalin says they've had rain, and hail everyday here, and it is chilly. He and Tom Sirelain bought me a Pituophis found under a railroad tie at Guadalupe Canyon, from which I palpued a Thonomyx. May 25 This AM is chilly at first, partly cloudy. No rain last night. At 0949 h I saw Crotalus molossus J #9 stretched out and motionless, to the north from out of the rock nest where last seen. At 1000h I found C. molossus #3 in an open hairpin coil x 50 cm in front of the rock cave where last sighted. His eyes are still blue and skin dull. I took several photos from various angles, but his only response was to flinch each time the flash went off. At 1027 h I found an adult Masticophis bilineatus active on open ground while searching for C. molossus #11. The whip snake thrashed, spun, and stuck when I seized it trying to crawl away. I found C. molossus #11 under a 50 cm2 boulder in the south side of the road and x 15 m NE of the release site. I now realize the latter is x 300-400 m west of capture site due to my error. At 1049 h as I drove in the study road a youngish looking Geozocryph scuttled