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Transcription
Greese, H.
1992
May 25 along in front of my truck carrying an adult (continued) ♂ Sceloporus clarki - the lizard was clearly dead and battered (tongue clamped out of its own jaws) and had a short, barely regenerating tail. Sara Schmidt joined me for afternoon field work and we avoided thunderstorms by timing our visits to particular sites. At ~1330h we spotted C. mokolossus #11 up under the same rock as this AM. At 1345h we found C. mokolossus #9 in the same place as this AM, but now in an open hairpin coil w/ head started up the inside of a body curve. At 1402h C. mokolossus #3 in light sun ~1m east of this morning's site; as Sara moved closer for a photo he slowly and quietly crawled partly into the rock cave, but seemed reluctant to cease basking - no rattling. Next we drove to the Krazy Kantra to flip rocks along Kuchen Canyon Rd. - soon ran into Kim Murphy the same warden and had a good visit w/ him. Under rocks along the beach road we found numerous Cnemidophorus uniparens, a few Sceloporus undulatus, and one large ♂ Holbrookia maculata. At 1613h a subadult Crotalus scutulatus abruptly rattled from the edge of a grass clump from ~2m before we saw it, then crawled slowly off. At 1645h I caught a tiny brightly orange banded Sonora semiannulata under a stone - there was a definite under rock.