Hendrickson 1950 Eulaimias merriami Aug. 26 Lower Covington Plate, 3000 ft., Riverside Co., Caly. While watching near water hole in canyon emptying into first wash S. of camp, an individual appeared about 10 min. after I had become settled. It charged continually at me, intermittently edging toward the water, then running back closer to cover in the rocks. Eventually it moved down to a near-vertical face above the sloping pit in the sand, at the bottom of which was the water. It either lost its footing on this vertical face or intentionally dropped down to the sand. I had just finished digging out the water hole, and continual slides of sand had left a smooth, steep slope of loose material. It was on this the animal landed; it started another slide and ended in the water. Apparently badly frightened, it ran wildly up the sliding sand of another slope of the pit and disappeared among the rocks. It was not seen again.