Davis 14 946 1/2 mi. S.E. Visotville, 2950; San Bernardino Co., Calif. May 6, 1946 now opening at either end of the cre- vie. Bob then prodded the chuck with his fishing rod, until the lizard scrambled out through my end of the revie, and I was able to se- cure him. It was a large male. The femoral pores had large pieces of a hard, yellowish, watery substance extruded from them. The lizard made no attempt to bite, although we were careful in handling it. On the rock adjacent to the crevie where we catched it, were several of its scats, which are about the same size as those of a ground squirrel, and composed entirely of vegetable matter. Surround- ding the scats, and running down from them, were large areas where apparently some liquid had dried. It is possible that this was urine, and that Sauromalus uri- nates a considerable volume of liquid, as opposed to other lizards. This is in line with its vegetable diet, which would give it more liquid than carnivorous lizards would derive from their diet. After