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Although there is a very slight possibility the lizard I saw under the bush was not the runner, I do not think it probable, as I kept close watch, and no lizard ran [[underline]] out [[/underline]] from the bush.
Kranzthor continued up the canyon a way and came back with several ^[[insert]] smaller [[/insert]] lizards, a large [[underline]] Sceloporus [[/underline]] and a fine racer, [[underline]] Masticophis semilineatus [[/underline]]. The [[underline]] Sceloporus [[/underline]], the first we have seen [[strike]] such [[/strike]] since leaving California, ran under some rocks, + K. dug him out. K. shot at a [[underline]] Callisaurus [[/underline]] and missed + when he went over to the large bush it had disappeared into, to look for it, he saw it apparently pinned to the ground by a stick.This stick turned out to be the racer, which held the lizard by the middle. It worked it around + had it half swallowed, even tho nervous at K's presence, by the time he put a stick on it and picked it up [[strike]] He [[/strike]] It dropped the lizard, which escaped, but showed no resentment + was not nervous or hard to handle. Some fine photos of it were secured.
Later, after K. had returned + my eyes had
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rested, I went off ^[[insert]] (with dark glasses) [[/insert]] over the low rolling ridges behind the ranch for a mile or so, but nothing but a [[underline]] Callisaurus [[/underline]] showed itself. As I had no gun, it escaped. K. went likewise over these ridges but returned empty -handed. No Gila Monsters in sight. We went back to town about 6 P.M.
Went over to Lee Evelyn Snyder + show her the snake. Mrs. Carroll was very good to us-asked us to eat but declined. Mr. Carroll, a railroad engineer, returned before we left. He told us that at Maricopa, [[insert]] Arizona [[/insert]] under the railroad station, there lived [[strike]] an enormos [[/strike]] a colony of enormous greenish toads, which came out after rains, and at night under the  [[strike]] tc. [[/strike]] electric lights to catch bugs. [[underline]] At last [[/underline]] our long-sought [[underline]] B. alvarius. [[/underline]]
At night we were tired + went to a movie, "Making the Grade"- just [[underline]] fair [[/underline]] I thought-
Tucson is a peculiar town- tho like many in this section in some ways. On the one hand the squalid Mexican section, on the other a highly intelligent University community.
The photos we obtained at Steampump are as follows.