Greene, H. 1989 August 13 Cave Creek Rd. just as it started raining. All (Continued) evening there were heavy electrical storms on the surrounding mountain ranges. Rained into the evening. August 14 Arranged things for surgery tomorrow, talked to David Hardy in Costa Rica, and checked two drift fences on the Paradise Rd. w/ Barney Torberlin. From ~1900-2230 I road hunted out Portal Rd & Hwy 80, made two passes over the Sistrum site, and went up the canyon to SWRS. Saw 6 snakes: 2 neonate Crotalus scutulatus, an adult Pituophis malanderson (2028h) at the Sistrum site bridge (21.4 mi SW State Line) and a neonate Pituophis on the Portal Rd. (2211 h), and two adult C. scutulatus (one on State Line Rd. and one preserved). August 15 At 0940 hr Bryan Jennings (UCSB undergraduate) and I missed an adult Masticophis bilineatus at on Cave Creek Rd a few 100 m NE of the Hardys turnoff -- it was immobile on the road when first spotted, but rapidly slid off and we couldn't find it in the mesquite. At 1120hr I spotted a subadult Elgaria leinzi rapidly undulating off the edge of Barney Torberlin's driveway in Portal. Operated on a pair of Crotalus molossus found by Tony Snel in the same sycamore grove where we began tracking the male blacktail last year -- surgeries seemed to go fine, Barney and Tony and I ate an early dinner and were at the Sistrum bridge site, 21.4 mi SW