Greene, H. 1989 October, 19 (continued) rattled and looked back to see a subadult Crotalus atrox where I just stopped, drawing under the boulder. Hooked it out and eventually bagged it w/ Barney's grab stick. Snake was very riled: body flattened, it struck repeatedly and wildly, and at least twice bit the snake bag. I was impressed that the mouth was widely gaped during the strikes. Next we drove to Bernardino to watch for Sistrurus and picked up a DOR Heterodon nasicus that I thought from the car was a Sistrurus because of its dark pattern. Found a still thrashing DOR Pituophis melanolaeus on the highway back to State Jer6 Rd. After lunch I returned to the Crotalus moosauus site in Paradise Rd., and found our delineated pair both basking by the sheltering rocks at which they've recently been sighted -- some several dozen meters apart.