Greene, H. 1988 August 3 (continued) Fork picnic area and hiked up and back the trail until ~ 1530hs. Increasingly cloudy, but we didn't get rain until ~ 1700hs. Saw several Scelopous jessovie, at 1500 hr I saw an adult ♂ lampropeltis pyronelana crawling under the end of a small fallen mossy log beside the trail. The site is open woodland with lots of grass and rocho, only a few meters from the creek. When I seized and lifted the snake it thrashed and emitted a sharp odor, this I saw no visible cloacal discharge. As I handed it to Missy it bit her, then me and attempted to swallow my thumb. No palpable food. The snake is aberrant in two respects. There is much fusion of black bands, such that posteriorly the red is eliminated; anteriorly, the red is restricted to paired lateral spots. The light bands - which tend to straw yellow as does the snout - fuses at the ventro-lateral margins to form irregular stripes. The snake was not especially obvious crawling in the leaves. During late handling the snake briefly assumed an S-coil, vibrated its tail, and made a short strike. After dinner, at the Portal Store w/ Barney Torberlin, Tony Snell, and Charlie Painter (New Mexico Game and Fish), Missy and I road hunted in rain to State Line Rd. and back - saw