J. Rodgers - 1943 2 Lampropeltis getulus boglii April 18, 1943 Mrs. Vert. Zool., Univ. Calif., Berkeley, Alameda Co., Cal. Noted on king snake (T.R. 3835) taken 1 mi. n.w.w San Felice, 275 ft., Santa Clara Co., Calif. This snake was placed in a jar (1 gal. mayonnaise) with some skinks (Eumeces skiltonianus) and some fence lizards (Sceloporus occidentalis) when they were collected, about 5:00 p.m. The jar was about half full of dry and green grass. At about 6:00, when we were parked in a service station in Gilroy, we found that this snake had started to swallow a large Sceloporus. When we first noted it, only the head and shoulders were in the snake's mouth; 20 min. later, the tail had disappeared. July 13, 1943 Mrs. Vert. Zool., Univ. Calif., Berkeley, Alameda Co., Cal. While in Santa Cruz last week, my father told me that Theodore J. Hoover collected a large king snake (Lampropeltis g. boglii) and transported it alive from San Simeon to his home on Waddell Creek, where he released it. Yesterday a king snake started to eat a garter snake (T. sirtalis) while both in a 1 gal. mayonnaise jar. The two specimens belong to acc. no. 7079. The head x about 3/4" of the neck of the garter snake was in the king snake, released when chloroform