Here, H. 1991 April 19 (continued) neither afraid nor completely at ease about its nearly presence - we joked about not making rabbit noise while riding down the hill. Back at MVZ I checked to find Carl Koford's published observation of a lion in California stalking a deer had been at 1240hr! We were still buzzing and incredulous about seeing the lion day mid-afternoon, and tonight I read pieces about mountain lions by Charles Bowden and Edward Abbey. May 3 Bixby Regional Park, Control Costa Co., California Spent the morning here w/ my natural history class and found only inactive Sceloporus, Eswrece, skillionius, and Coluber constrictor under rocks - a chilly, windy, overcast morning. The Coluber was a yearling ♂, 290+95mm w/ obvious unbulked scar, regurgitated the femur of a black field cricket. May 4 Same locality, same Coluber under the same rock, but today no palpable stomach contents or feces. In late morning we encountered an adult Pituophis as it emerged from a tunnel that surfaced under a rock. June 10-12 Grasshopper Flat, 24 mi N. Battle (Hwy 395) on Harris Springs Rd., Siskiyou Co., California W/ Sally Zamudio saw 13 Phymosoma douglasii - caught, marked, and released 9 for her studies; these included yearlings, second year juveniles, adult females w/ possibly palpable ovaries, and a male w/ swollen hemipenes. Sally kept measurements, sexes, and capture time - Four