Field notes, v1731
Page 413
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R. Zweifel July 13, 1951 327 Pituophis catenifer annectens Paso Picacho Camp, Cuyamaca Rambo State Park, San Diego County, Calif. A sub-adult found at 11:15 AM crawling across an open space in the pine-oak-mountain cedar forest. The iris of this snake is bright reddish-brown. July 17, 1951 At 1:00 PM today some campers showed me a sub-adult gopher snake in a rock wall by their campsite. They said it had been chasing mice about in the wall for for much of the morning. one of the rangers At 4:45 PM took me to where he had seen a large gopher snake cross the road (in the campground) a few minutes earlier. I found the snake in the dry grass a few feet from the edge of the road. The snake was not kept.