Field notes, v1308
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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