Greene, H. 1993 August 4 Overcast and cool at 0700h, partly cloudy and warming up by ≈ 0915h. At 1030h C. molasius ♂ #12 is ≈ 20m SW of yesterday, up the S. bank of Silver Creek, in a hunting coil w/ her head up on the horizontal root of a large oak. At 1110 h C. molassus ♂ #3 is in a large Natoma nest on the N. ridge above Silver Creek, S. of the road at ≈75m W. of the pullout. Accompanied by Earl Rawlins and Ben Dial, neither of whom are up to any strenuous walking. August 5 Scotia Canyon, Huachuca Mtns., Cochise Co., Arizona Earl Rawlins, Ben Dial, and I spent last night at the "Western Motel" in Sierra Vista - strange little place run by Asian Indians w/ a porn channel on Cable TV and windows facing due east - so I was blasted away by sunlight ≈ 0500 h. We drove across the N. edge of Ft. Huachuca and thus could see that the terrain between the Huachucas and Whetstone Mtns- is oak savanna and thus not suitable for Crotalus willardi. We walked around Scotia Canyon for ≈ 1 ½ hrs beginning ≈0830h but saw no snakes. Earl lost his balance in the creek bed and it took Ben and I close to 30 minutes to get him she ≈15-20 feet up the embankment. He's 85 and has reconstructed knees, and