H. H. 1982 12 March Went to Arboretum and released Chironius grandisquamus w/ transmitter at 0746 hr. Kept track of it (mostly in a hole in a creek marine bank) for most of day. At ~1130hr found a Kinosternon that fits scorpiodes except that it has a black plastron space (not orange). ~1500 got called to looked for a snake at ~700m on the East River Road - went, couldn't find it, and returned to the Chironius. At 1640 the Chironius left it's hole, disappeared over the edge of the embankment, and got called that the snake was in view again at 700m East River Road. It was a Bothrops asper, at least (later guess 7'?) 5-6' long, crawling among scattered plants in mud flats at the bottom of a steep embankment. I looked out to w/in hock's length (~5') of it, tried to gently lift it, and it turned towards me. At this point I discovered that I was over knee deep in mud and that the mud was deeper than my snake hook - and that I could only move my legs w/ great difficulty. Thought about trying to kill the snake if it advanced on me, but it suddenly moved very fast across a small stream and about 4m away. I jumped to a little log across the stream (after dragging myself out