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Steele, H.
1993
July 24 Little Scotia Canyon, Huachuca Mtns, Cochise Co., Arizona
arrived here x 1400h w/ Fred Wilson - I drove from
Berkeley, picked Kelly Zamudio up at the Tucson airport
yesterday afternoon. Warm, no recent rain but lots
of green grass and insects. We located Crotalus
willardi ? #8 tucked under bunch grass on the W.
wall of the main canyon, face visible. Then C.
wilbardi ?#15 under the edge of a rock in a ravine
(the 5th from our "study" ravine), only edge of her
body showing. At 1425h Kelly spotted an adult
Sonora semiannulata wriggling across rocks in
the sun. Later I palpated two small spiders w/ egg cases
out of its stomach. At 1440h Kelly and Fred saw a
small Salvadora in the brush pile where we found
a C. lepidus w/ food lump on a previous trip. We
found C. willardi ? #16 & ?#17 together in a bunch
grass clump, and ? #14 stretched out in shade
among rocks - when we approached to ~3m
she crawled slowly x 2 m & investigated a
rock cave, then froze; we left. Fred told me
has repeatedly seen. C. lepidus turn to face
pursuer as their tail disappears under a rock
- thus people get stuck reaching in w/ tongs.
We saw a ? Holozokia maculata in the ravine
bottom (she ran fast several meters - surprised
me as I'm used to this species being more
sedentary), and heard bullfrogs calling from