hahaha Yeah, that's about the only option left because I'm not aware of any Locality Newport's being available anywhere. What's cool about finding them in the wild is they are not common at all. In some areas of Orange Co. you might find as many as 1 out of 10 being the Newport phase, or 1 out of 50 in parts of L.A. Co. Then there are Newport's that deviate from the typical striped look and look more banded. Those have been named "Scrambled banded" Newport's in Hubbs book. They are a lot rarer and as of now only two examples have been found in recent years. Both were found in 2006, one by me and one by another field herper named Josh. Here's the one I found in 2006. None of the bands reach the belly, so its more like a bonch of big blotches down the back. All other Newport's that have popped up in that area since then have been the striped type.


Here's an old male also found in 06 that was intermediat between the two forms.


As far as Long Beach goes, there's an oil field out there that produces hypermelanistic kings known as "Grease kings". Not the prettiest of snakes but they are well known from LB and are available from time to time. There are guys on this forum that breed them. I was lucky enough to find some in 2006 and produced some this year.

Wild caught male


Its offspring


This male was exceptionally dark and was held back.





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