Greene, H. 1988 September 8 Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona arrived here approx 1530 hr, after a flight from Oakland to Tucson, where I picked up the Hardy's jeep. After dinner road hunted to Sistrums area on Hwy 80, made two circuits back and forth, then back here to talk to Barney Tomberlin and Tony Snell. approx 1 mi. E. of Portal I stopped to check a juvenile Pituophis and getting back in the car saw a Micrurus crawling onto the road from mesquite grassland - not even dark yet. It squirreled and popped when restrained w/ my foot and then a grab stick. approx 1/4 mi SW of State Line on Hwy 80 an adult Crotalus scutulatus got off the road before I could get out to catch it. Then got a small Sistrurus, catenatus, immobile and stretched out - squirreled and rattled when seized w/ grab stick. Saw another juvenile Pituophis approx 2030 hr on Portal Rd., and after leaving Barney's, another, larger Micrurus just E. of the Portal (Cane Cocks) Bridge - also squirreled and popped when restrained. Both of the coral snakes crawled very rapidly when first touched. September 9 at approx 0930 Barney and I went to check a telemetered Crotalus molossus, 2.8 mi N. of Portal on the road to Paradise. He found the snake initially in a ravine bottom w/ dense vegetation (e.g., big sycamores, alligator junipers). To the west on the main Chiricahuas rising above slopes of grass, rocks, and junipers. To the East, more open, steep, rocky country w/