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MARCH 30, - CONT.
I HAVE SEEN THE CNEMIDOPHORUS HERE RUN ON
THEIR HIND LEGS ALONE SEVERAL TIMES. THE BODY IS
NOT LIFTED HIGH, HOWEVER. - THE FORELEGS ARE JUST
LIFTED UP AND HELD ALONG SIDE THE BODY.

A SCELOPORUS I SAW DID NOT HESITATE
TO DIVE INTO THE STREAM AND SWIM TO THE OTHER
BANK WHEN IT SPOTTED ME. I SHOT HIM ON THE FAR
BANK.

THERE WERE VERY FEW FROGS ALONG THE STREAM.
12 WHICH I SAW DIVE AND WAITED FOR, WERE ALMOST
CERTAINLY R. PIPIENS, ALTHO I DIDN'T GET EITHER,
I THINK ALL THE TADS ARE PIPIENS, ALTHO I SAW A FEW
VERY TINY BLACK ONES, PROBABLY BUFO.

MARCH 31, 1949 - SAN GABRIEL.
HELMUT BROUGHT IN A SCELOPORUS HE CAUGHT IN HIS
TRAP A MILE N. OF TOWN. I SPENT THE MORNING TAKING
CARE OF THE SPECIMENS I GOT HERE, AND WE DROVE TO
GUZMAN FOR THE NIGHT. MCVAUGH GOT A STORERIA STORERIOIDES
ON COLIMA FOR ME. IT HAS ONLY 5 LABIALS (7 IN SPECIES)

APRIL 1, 1949 - EN ROUTE
SPENT THE A.M. IN GUZMAN BUYING SUPPLIES, ETC.
DROVE TO THE N.E. SLOPE OF THE NEVADO, BY A VERY ROUNDABOUT
ROUTE. THE ALLWEATHER ROAD FROM GUZMAN TO SAN
GABRIEL GOES SOUTH FROM E. TO THE FOOT OF THE NEVADO,
WHERE A JUNCTION GOES ONE WAY TO ATENQUIQUE AND THE
OTHER TO S. GABRIEL. THE LATTER FOLLOWS THE FOOTHILLS TO
LOS ALPES, WHERE IT JOINS OUR OLD ROAD TO S.E. A BRIDGE
AT LOS ALPES IS MISSING, THUS THE ALL WEATHER ROAD CANNOT
BE USED ALL THE WAY. ABOUT 2 MILES SHORT OF LOS ALPES
A ROAD GOES LEFT TO A SAWMILL, AND THEN ON UP THE MT.

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APRIL 1, 1949. (CONT.)
TO 10,000 FT. THIS ROAD IS TOO STEEP ABOUT 7500 FT.
FOR OUR TYPE OF TRUCK, ALTHO THE LUMBER TRUCKS GO
RIGHT ON UP. WE CAMPED AT ABOUT 7[??]00 FT.

APRIL 2, 1949 - NEVADO DE COLIMA
I WENT DOWNHILL TODAY, BECAUSE OF MY PREVIOUS
EXPERIENCES AT THE HIGH ALT. ON THIS MT. I DROPPED
DOWN TO THE TREE LINE GOING DOWN, WHERE OPEN
GRASSY FIELDS BEGIN (ABOUT 6800 FT) THESE FIELDS
ARE STREWN WITH ROCKS. THEY (THE FIELDS) ARE CLOSELY CROPPED BY
CATTLE, A LOG AT THE FOOT OF A STEEP HILL COVERED A
SMALL CROTALUS, WHICH HAD JUST FINISHED SHEDDING
HIS SKIN, THE CAST LYING BESIDE HIM. THE ROCKS YIELDED
TWO SPECIES OF SCELOPORUS, FERRARIPEREZI AND
SCALARIS? THE LATTER WAS QUITE COMMON, AND I PICKED
UP A SMALL SERIES AS I FOLLOWED THE PATH
AROUND THE HILLS. THEY WERE ALL UNDER ROCKS AND
LOGS, IN OPEN FIELDS.

I CONTINUED ON DOWN THE MT. ALMOST TO THE FLAT
VALLEY, AT ABOUT 6500 FT. A VERY DEEP VALLEY CAME
OFF THE MOUNTAIN FROM VERY HIGH, AND CONTINUED ITS
CUT TO THE FLATLANDS. I WENT DOWN INTO IT, AND TURNED
ROCKS, WHICH WERE NUMEROUS. I FOUND 4 CONOPSIS UNDER
THESE ROCKS, MOST OF THEM ON THE CANYON SIDE ONLY A
LITTLE ABOVE THE STREAM BED. THE STREAM WAS PERFECTLY
DRY, OF COURSE, AS IS ALL OF THIS MOUNTAIN.

WE LEFT HERE ABOUT 4 O CLOCK, AND WENT TO GUZMAN
FOR WATER. THEN WE DROVE WEST ON THE DRY WEATHER
ROAD TO SAN GABRIEL, DRIVING TO ABOUT 6500 FT. WE
MADE CAMP ABOUT 6:30 UNDER THE FOOTHILLS OF THE
RANGE DIRECTLY TO THE NORTH OF THE NEVADO.