hoffmeister 1939 Neotoma cinerea July 5 Columbia R., 300 ft., at mouth of Deschutes R., Wasco Co., Ore. I found one specimen caught by the hind foot in a steel no. 1½ trap that Johnson had set in a culvert beneath the railroad tracks. and front foot was you + healed over, "a peg-leg". The specimen had a large sore on its back. Blade Cr., 250 ft. ½ mi. N Columbia R., Benton Co., Wash. July 19 Caught 2 adult males in rat traps I set near the creek. Wood-rat signs is present everywhere among the willows and grasses here. These bushy-tailed wood rats have "taken advantage" of driftwood that has piled up around the base of the willows and use these, for homes, very similar to homes of N. fuscipes. July 27 Stayawhile Spg., 5150 ft., Columbia Co., Wash. Caught an adult and juvenile female beneath the cabin at this locality. The mammary glands were greatly developed as well as 3 embryos in the adult female. This is much higher zonally than at the two previous localities, the cabin being situated in a dense stand of Pinus monticola, Larix, Pseudotsuga taxifolia, Abies concoloris, Picea.