SNAKE HUNTERS of the expe- 

 dition are equipped with a 

 snake stick and a small sack to 

 care for quarry. They are stalk- 

 ing a rattlesnake, coiled as be- 

 low. John S. Garth, zoologist, 

 handles the stick while the sack 

 is held by Don Goodger, radio 

 officer. The scene was pictured 

 on Tortuga Island, Gulf of 

 California. 





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VENOMOUS RATTLER sunning 

 hirnself on large flat rock is 

 coaxed to strike. Then noose of 

 snake stick is slipped over his 

 head and he is stowed away 

 among zoological specimens, 

 later to be exhibited in the 

 snake house of the San Diego 

 Zoological Gardens at Balboa 

 Park. His name: Crotalus 

 lortugensis. 



