Greene, H. 1990 August 16 once initiated, and as the F crawled or pulled her (tail away) the vent was open and x/100-.50 mm string of greenish cream fluid in a string streamed from her cloaca. Neither snake rattled as I gently lifted them w/ forceps into a bag - at 1542 hr I photographed her still swollen but closed cloacal area. Late this afternoon Dave and I visited K.M. Murphy, the local Game Warden. Last year he saw an adult Crotalus molossus protruding from a Neotoma nest and just starting to swallow a woodrat pup - squirming and w/ eyes still closed. Kim tapped the snake w/ a stick and it released the pup, which was still alive several dozen minutes later - thus Kim concluded the rat pup was being swallowed w/out envenomation. Dave and I road hunted to Bernardino, making three passes over the section from Pucker Canyon Rd to Bernardino on 1/Nov 80. We picked up 2 C scutulatus, a big dead Pitophis, and - at the same stop - a Micruroides euryxanthus (I think Dave hit it) and a live, squirming, cloacal-popping [fluid spews for several feet!] Gyalopion canum. August 17 Another sunny, hot day! at x/0900 hr we found Crotalus molossus M #3 x30 m 55E of his previous sight, in dappled sun, in a tight coil, w/head over outer coil and neck in an "S" at 0910 hr,