Free, H. 1987 18 June after breakfast, measured the big haesis muter: 1780 mm SV, tail 175 mm, 3.75 Kg. She seemed moderately aggressive, repeatedly forming a striking coil and keeping the body inflated and vertically flattened. She (?) seemed exceptionally heavy, but the people helping me hold her couldn't palp eggs or food of any certainty. Before breakfast the workmen found a Leptodeira septentrials under a tire at their shed, on the edge of second growth (523+149 mm, 27.3 g). It assumed an exaggerated S-coil, expanded the head posteriorly, and made slow awkward twitches. Tried to bite when seized. It had recently eaten a hydrid w/green bones, SV 38 mm, max load width 10.5 mm, 2 g. After lunch, went out 50# and into Plot I-4 to photograph a large spider, feeding on what had been a yellow hybid (?) in its web. Diana Jiehemann had found them this AM, when the frog was largely intact. Left at 1600h to check the haesis on CES. at 1616h, 250 CES, caught a Leptophis chaetulla (? possibly gravid, 840+530 mm, 105 g) crossing the trail in a grade. Snake immediately prolapsed the cloaca, emitting a strong odor very similar to the L. nebulosus earlier this week. Thrashed laterally and along its long axis, gaped