Grease, h. 1990 August 14 (continued) He was in a loose coil anteriorly w/ tail & post. trailing toward the crevice, as if he had just crested out. As I moved closer to try for a photo he jerked out toward the crevice then froze, and we withdrew. After lunch we implanted yesterday's male C. molossus #6, a young (tapered rattle) male, with an AVM w/ frequency 151.115 mhz. This afternoon I visited Barney Tombelin and Tony Swell, now living < 1 mile east of Portel. They gave me 2 Gyalopim carum (both popped and squirted while squirming in hand), 1 Tantilla nigricops, 1 T. yogaia, and a huge Diadophis punctatus - the latter caught by a cat across from the Portel Store. David Hardy and I road hunted from ~1830-2130 hr, first to ~9 mi E. of Hwy 80 on Hwy 9 in New Mexico to release 3 small Crotalus atrox, then SW on Hwy 80 to Bernardino to make one pass over the sighting site. Heavy showers at June and cool. We saw only one snake, an adult Crotalus scutulatus. August 15 At 0810 this morning Alicia from New Mexico came and Fish called to confirm that John Hubbard says I cannot collect on Hwy 9 - no explanation. This morning is cool and overcast, and we had more rain during the night. Supposedly this (in my experience) peculiar weather results from some storm in the Gulf of California. At 1100hr we located P C. molossus #5 under a low (<0.5m) acacia in a tight coil, tail hidden, wool