Field notes, v1308
Page 201
Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley. | www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
H202, H. 1992 july 30 facial stripes blended w/ the basal dray grayish-white (continued) grass blades. At 1055h an adult ♂ Elgaria grass clump kingi by a rock in the ravine bottom. At x1130h Fred heard a rattle and spotted a subadult ♂ C. willardi unmarked, the 9th for our study. At 12/5h we found C. willardi ♂#1 coiled tightly, partially covering the also tightly coiled ♀, both well concealed under the edge of the bunch grass she occupied previously. Twice she moved slightly (her snout was initially under one of his coils), each time he jerkily touched her back 1-3 times. Saw Thosaurus and Cnemidophorus (sonorae?) on rocks and in oak leaf litter, respectively at 1330h the C. willardi pair were immobile in the same grass clump. Earlier we watched him crawling (searching for her?), frequent tongue-flicks and strange back and forth movements of head and neck - not limited. Fred and Dare have seen him and at least one of the ♀♀ do this before, suggesting it isn't just used by ♂♂ to search for ♀♀. july 30 Chiricahua Mtns, Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona arrived here ~1800h, driving over from the Huachuca's on the drive I was studied by the darkly forested (almost brooding) Sierra San Jose visible just across the international border as I drove east toward Bisbee. In contrast, Mule Mountain behind Bisbee, which Joe Marshall mapped as heavily