There, H. 1985 3 August (continued) Barry and Max Beckwith, a 16 yr-old from Marin Co. who's down here helping him. They have a live and DOR Diadophis and a Trimorphoden for me. We road hunted from ~2000-2300h out of Portal, down Stetline Rd., and down S. on U.S. 80 to ~20mi out of Douglas. Saw Scaphiopus, Bfs alvarens, 2 juv and 1 adult Crotalus atrox, 1 juv C. scutulatus, and 4 Thamnophis marcians. Heavy thunderstorms all around and much water on the roads, but no rain on us. Stopped at a ditch near Portal, in mesquite, to see Scaphiopus couchii and S. multiplicatus in a snifed chorus. 4 August ~0900 went to a hill ~5 mi NE of Portal, on the dirt road to San Simon. Cestoti and mesquite on the flats, ocotillo and cacti among boulders on the slopes, some rocky cliffs high on the hills. Max showed me a dead Mastigophis bilineatus they had seen several days earlier, and I was impressed by the resemblance of its blue-gray skin to a dead branch. I found a Coleonyx under a pile of dead agave leaves, the only heaps under ~25 of these I turned. At 0945h a cow caused a Crotalus atrox to rattle from under an ocotillo (cow startled!). It was ~1m long, reluctant to leave the small spot of shade it occupied, and hissed and rattled continuously.