Keene, H. 1993 July 31 was sneaking up behind shrubs from ~3m away! (continued) I don't recall a concealed C. molossus rattly at me before! Clear and bright sun, she is in shade under rock. From 0830-0900h I sat above & east of her, jammed against a shrub on the edge of another rock - could only barely see an edge of her coils. Finally crawled down and lay ~0.5 m in front of her hideout, took photos of her coiled facing out. As I took the 3rd shot she extended her head ~20cm & tongue flicked, then retreated to shade and withdrew her head out of view. At 0955h I found C. molossus # 11 w/ his tail & posterior hanging out of a hole under a big belfer under a juniper in the east side of a big gulley that extends N. of Silver Creek. He has 7 segments, the last damaged, green paint on 3rd (basalis?). In the course of getting down to him (around a big Nestoma nest in the lodge system) I fell down the embankment breaking the antenna cable as I went through juniper limbs. Returned to Hardy's house for good cable hacks, started up to C. molossus # 9 w/ ~1/4 quart of water. Rock squirrel active until at 11:15 h, very hot. Kept following higher falling a lot because of worthless 1-yr. old Menill roots! Got pretty dehydrated, stopped