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there, H.
1998
July 28 Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona
I arrive here ~0230hr, having left Jordan (UK, homology meeting at the Novartis Foundation yesterday AM (actually ~2200hr Portal time on the 26th - flew Jordan-Toronto-Minneapolis-Tucson, then our truck from Tucson to Portal; I had driven the truck here from Berkeley July 13-14 (odometer at start 119,778).
I come in through Paradise and catch an adult Crotales molossus heading S. off road at the west end of our study site (the becomes Cin 35) - catch her w/ Maglite and a tube, no problem!
I'm up by ~0630hr due to jet lag, greeted by David J. Hardy Sr. and Marcio Martins, latter friend w/ whom we worked in Marano in 1993.
July 29 We roadhunt the Sistrurus area SW of here and get 3 Crotales scutulatus.
July 30 at 0820hr, CM31 is in a flat coil on a rock ledge under a boulder, w/ head in sun facing out to the NE, all else in shade; I sneak up to her from behind an agave and still she pulls back into shade and shelter. I scan in beside her w/ fones and see no babies. At 0940hr Marcio and I are in a ravine leading up to the saddle through which the "benday