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Mural Leong
1969
journal
24
Aug. 15 (cont.)
3 am NW Mosope, & 100 ft., Dept. Lambayeque, Peru
and brownish with greenish backs and long racket-tails.
They seem to swish their tails back and forth ~1/4 x as they perch or hover.
8:30 a.m. The sun has come out (ie the clouds cleared away) and I expect the lizards will, too. Then an swallow here with white fronts and dark backs.
9:20 am Saw my first lizard of the morning - a small, light- colored one with a dark stripe on its ventral side.
9:21 am Saw another of the same variety - there are probably only 2 in. S-V.
9:40 I saw another small lizard, this one darker in color and maybe spinier. Perhaps lizards come out according to how big they are - the smaller ones emerging first. Then again, perhaps only the small ones move so I can see them.
9:45 Watching a smallish ( &-V 2 1/2 in.) pale lizard with tan, mottled back and black + white stripe on shoulder:
It ran a short ways when it saw me (a felt my vibrations), then stopped & did a few fast push-ups. It stayed in the same place for a few minutes, occasionally lifting up & looking around.
After about 3 min. it did another push-up display.
Its tail is about as long as its head + body
10:05 It is becoming windy now. I saw a large individual of the type of lizard I described above.
I chased it a ways. When it stopped, it bobbed its head 3 time. I haven't seen the "hot-foot"