Moore Neotoma cinerea Oct 27, 1949 43 While eating our noontime meal at Quail Springs 4200 ft? San Bernardino Co. 23 mi. N.E. of Whitewater Station, Riverside Co., California, a wood rat was observed climbing about the branches at the base of a mesquite tree. It seemed not al- armed at our presence a few yards away, but carried its large earlike ears erect at all times, and the long baro or stump-like lip, seemed to be waving con- tinuously. It retreated into its hole one with some scraps of food in its mouth, but returned immediately, and continued its search around a small puddle of water where it was finally shot.