Field notes, v1308
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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