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16-17 July
specimen collected on 10 July (# 1/7).
Stayed at the La Enchantada Motel on the
north side of Hermosillo and also ate at the motel. Even
stayed up with John & Philip dancing & talking
until midnight in the motel's bar.
No geckos seen on the motel's walls.
17 July
Got up about 8:15 AM and spent most of the
morning doing chores and getting Jim's bus checked
out to make sure we had done nothing more
serious than break the oil filter.
Took off east of Hermosillo about noon to find
John a Cnemidophorus lutea locality. Finally
pulled into a rancho 2.8 miles S.E. junct. Mex. Hwy 16
and the Mazatan Rd. on Hwy. 16, Cerro la Agualurca
This is a typically flat part of Sonoran
desert with several isolated mountain outcrops.
The latter being the Cnemidophorus habitat John
wanted. In particular we worked on and around
a small mountain which the ranch owner called
Cerro la Agualurca. We saw and caught the
following:
250-255
Dipsosaurus dorsalis: Abundant
Throughout the flats between the main Hwy. &
The Cerro. The density was amazing - probably
much greater than the Cnemidophorus. The