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Greens, H.
1992
August 22 1050h he emerges out the N. side of the prickly pear
(continued) tongue flicking and swining his head side to side,
rattles and comes a few cm toward me when I
moved, then resumed "searching." at 113h I
returned to this site searching for C. molossus ♀ #15
(stupidly I didn't check for her signal earlier!)
and found her under a boulder edge of ravine w/S.
molossus ♂#13, ≈4 m NW of his earlier location, and
saw him making "forward jerks." at 1154h I
localized C. molossus ♂ #11 to a large sunac
clumps over boulders below rimrock of the S.
curving ridge that is the E. boundary of our
"main" study area, ≥ 100 m N. of the road. After
lunch I processed 2 Crotalus molossus caught
for me at SWRS: ♀, 901+42 mm, 503 g, 9
segments, parallel, incomplete; ♂ 946+70 mm,
503 g, 8 segments, parallel, incomplete.
August 23 Today is chilly and humid, w/a solid cloud bank
down to ≈ 7000' and the ridge tops - feels like winter,
but not cold. at 1025h Dave and I found C. molossus
♂ #8 alone in a hole under a boulder on the S. side
of Finestone Mtn. ridgetop, ≈ 75 m WSW of yesterday
- he was in a loose coil, head not visible. at 1032h
we found C. molossus ♀ 14 under a group & ≈ 4
clumped sotal, invisible, ≥75 m E of ♂#8 and
≈ 5 of yesterday, on the S. edge of the ridge. At
1122 h. C. molossus ♂ #3 is ≈100 m W. of