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Free H.
1998
August 8 (continued)
after dinner I announce I will go
catch a coorsnake and Marcelo comes
along. We drive to x 2-2.5 miles E
of Portal and on second pass (now
dark, huge gold moon about to crest
the Peloncillos) I see a Micruroides <1m
coming onto rd from the north, stop
immediately, and it's gone! We search
and within a minute find it x3 m
N of road on open gravel. Immediately
starts fast, and when restrained w/
forceps it tucks the head, curls and
waves the tail, and cloacal pops
repeatedly.
August 9
at 0745h we release CM♂394 where we
locate ♀39 in open brushland just
E of "Boundary Canyon" and south of the
road (this telemetered♀caught by
Chuck Raw when finders spotted her and
a ♂ crossing the road August 7; he
later caught this ♂(394) at the same
site, thus perhaps the same ♂). At
0845h we check the ♀29 site, finding
no new sheds but 2 segments of adult
taille at the entrance. I get signal
of CM♂38 at the same big rock. I