Image from the Biodiversity Heritage Library.
Contributed by Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley.
| www.biodiversitylibrary.org
Transcription
Greene, H.
1997
June 2 (continued)
950m; it struggles and bites when seized.
June 3
We have a routine of processing animals and photographing animals in the morning, a map after lunch, and hunting from x 1830-2230hr. Tonight we check the old French stone ruins on the upper loop road. At x 2100hr Kelly finds a Jycodon crawling on rocky ground among sparse plants beside ruin stairs, 960m; struggles, bites and cloacal discharges when handled - I've noticed Jycodon hang on an seem to nibble the front teeth when held. At 2115 Kelly spots a Diroiden (we think this is an undescribed species, maybe new genus) crawling slowly in the concrete ditch between road and rock wall, x 960m; it struggles and bites when handled. At the next pond, at 2145hr, I spot a medium size Sinonatrix trianguligera w/ just head protruding from surface vegetation mat, x 3m out from bank. After several minutes Kelly tosses a stick beyond it, thinking to drive the snake forward, but instead it seems to pursue the