Field notes, v1308
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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