Greene, H. 1988 August 4 [illegible] out the device in my direction. Caught the (continued) [? without difficulty -- she continued to rattle when hooked into a bag, but never struck. After some poking the second snake -- a much larger [?] -- emerged a few inches from the crack and struck twice at me -- short strikes from a light neck S-coil that flashed a whitish mouth. He then retreated into the crack, but in doing so his tail came out and I grabbed it. Then hooked him out and into a bag after he slid off the hook a couple of times -- he alternated holding ground w/ an S-coil w/ suddenly crawling away rapidly, rattling all the time. Had them in the same large bag in my pack, and they quieted down immediately. Still sunny walking back to the truck, but dark clouds over the higher peaks. By ~1800 hr, back at the Hardy's house, I hear thunder and the valley below is very dark. Hard rain into the night. We road hurred from Portal to State Line Rd. and back, and saw a huge Rana catesbeiana, a few Bufo cognatus and Scaphiopus couchi, many S. multiplicatus, and 2 Bufo delirius! -- the live one (a [?]) defecated pellets full of ant heads. August 5 Partly cloudy w/ scattered showers, some sun. Mid-morning we went past South Fork on the Carr Creek Rd., stopping to search talus slopes and a meadow.