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Greene, H.
1992
july 30 (continued)
encinal (open oak woodland) definitely looks to open and dry for Grotalus willardi.
july 31
Went searching for our radiotagged Crotalus molossus this AM w/ Tiny Snell, who last located them. At 0816h we found C. molossus #9 stretch immobile traveling downhill, ~150-200m above road and ~same distance NE (?) of his last site. At 0821h he resumed crawling. At 0844h saw a not active in catclaw and pickle pear as we searched for C. molossus #12 - found her at 0850h in a loose coil (I think we startled her) in thick brush ~100m N of road where Dare tagged her earlier, 50-75m NW of last site. At 0920h C. molossus #3 is under a boulder at the edge of a large ravine, ~35m WSW of Pole 1. His rattle and tail are extended out, and he tongue-flicked. At 1000h we found C. molossus #8 ~750m SW of his last site on the lower slopes of Round Valley, now only ~100m N of the main Finestore Ridge. He was shielded immobile, then crawled slowly and tongue-flicked. This is in dense grass and yucca in a general area he has used before. At 1105h we found C. molossus #11 3m SW of his July 11 site, in huriig coil perpendicular to a ~20cm diameter runway (photos). Wade Sherbooke gave me a preserved Natrixa palpied from a C. molossus at the Southwest Research Station earlier this month (HWG-22/2). After dinner I drove to Paradise