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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