Field notes, v1308
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Greene, G. 1992 August 2 (continued) 908 +46 mm, 462 g, 9 segments, barely tapered, incomplete sting; ?, 888+64 mm, 447 g, 10 segments very slightly tapered, incomplete. A large ? was found at the same spot on July 30th: 1080 + 80 mm, 1.6 kg. Tony told me this latter snake was especially prone to strike as blacktails go. Went to SWRS for dinner at George Middenhof's invitation, and Tom Mathies (Virginia Polytechnic) gave me a Lampropeltis pyronelara he found DOR this AM, which has an obvious food bulge (? Sedopsis janorii 18g, snake 55.5 g). August 3 Woke up ~0600h to bright sunlight, so left early to release Crotalus molossus ? #14. Took me 34 minutes to walk from the pull-out up to the ridge and set C. molossus ? #8 from the same hole where we found him yesterday. Released #14 and urged her down the hole, rattling! At 0815h I found C. molossus ? #3 in a tight hairpin coil, head and tail not visible, in a crack in the SE side of the boulder where he's been since I arrived. Met Jay Cole and Carole Townsend (AMNH) at the pull-out to go see the others. 0903h: We found C. molossus ? #13 where released yesterday, except outshelled in partial sun up-savine from the fallen agar, his tail visible under the dried plant from down-savine. As we walked around for a look he retreated under the boulder and out of sight. At 0929h we located C. molossus ? #9 ~300 m SW of yesterday, just S. of the road under a