Heero, H. 1970 August 23 froze briefly as my truck approached, then (continued) doubled back in a hairpin and disappeared - I was impressed by the visibility of copper color on the snake. Drove to Tucson. August 24 Drove to Mojave, California. August 25 Drove to Berkeley. September 29 Portal, Cochise Co., Arizona Arrived here ~1400 hr, after a flight from Berkeley to Tucson, where I rented a car for the drive down. Dave and Billie Hardy arrived yesterday and located all 5 of our radiotagged Crotalus molossus. Weather is warm, sunny, partly cloudy. At 1515 hr we located ♀ #5, stretched out in a narrow little gully through low dense scrub, a few meters W of where I encountered ♂ #3 on August 16. As yesterday when Dave found her, this snake contains a huge, recently ingested meal and seemingly cannot crawl. I feel sure it is a cottontail, because the lump is too large for a woodrat, wrong microhabitat for a rock squirrel, and Dave noticed protruding bumps yesterday - I think the rabbits hind legs and forefeet. She moved head and neck once as I approached for photographs, but never rattled. At 1535 hr we found ♂ #6 coiled in sun on the W side of a boulder, on a stick nest of Nestoma and w/ an obvious big food bulge. After several minutes of our maneuvering for photos, he crawled