J.R. Alcorn 1938 Neotoma cinerea 4 Jan.25. 1 mi. E Webo, Carson river, Lyon Co., Nevada. By breaking into the nest a wood rat ran out & up into the tops of the buck brush that was 10 to 15 feet high. I chased it about in this clump of brush for fifteen minutes but couldnt catch it. With ease it jumped from limb to limb. In this same locality a rats nest was probed into and up the tree went a bushy tailed & at about 25 feet the up the tree the rat ran into a woodpeckers hole. An attempt was made to smoke it out but it would not come out. Hansen Canyon, 6200 ft., 5 mi. W Paradise Valley Post Office, Humboldt Co., Nevada, Oct.1. Among many large boulders or rocks one bushy tailed wood rat was caught no. JRL.211. The trap had (a rat trap) caught it just back of the head on the web & yet it managed to carry or kick the trap down hill for 15 ft.