Field notes, v1308
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Greer, H. 1993 July 26 (continued) clump; I could see a coil and small head (?), all in shade. At 0830 hr. C. willardi ♀ #14 is ± 2 m uphill from the red rock where she was yesterday, under cleft of small rock, in shade, head face out. Walking back and checking stick piles, I wonder if C. lepidus hang out there because of the likelihood of arbustly scelopine lizards. At 0900 hr I checked out the rock piles below the earthen dam where we are camped and found an emaciated Thamnophis cyclopis (barky skeletoned out, w/ its entire tail gone and the stump necrotic [based on smell]). It could crawl reasonably fast tho not as rapidly as other adults I've caught here. No postloecal musk odor from handling. At 1020 hr I grabbed an adult ♂ (245±55 mm, no food in stomach) Sonora semiannulata as it dashed at my feet in rocks and sale leaves - in sun heat near shade. The orange and black bands are very obvious and disorienting when the snake crawls rapidly. It took refuge under a rock w/in 0.5 m where we caught it - squirmed when handled. At 1030 hr C. willardi ♀ #15 is in the same place, but now under downhill edge of rock in shade. She was facing out (but when I came close for a photo attempt she pulled her head out of sight). At 1055 hr C. willardi ♂ #16 and ♀ #17 are as before, the small head easily visible facing out. At 1100 hr C. willardi ♀ #14 is in same place - a few Jute