Hoffmeister 1942 Erethizon epixanthum May 25 Lone Pine Cr., 8200 ft., 9 1/2 mi. W & 1 1/4 mi. S Lone Pine, Inyo Co., Calif. On getting out of my sleeping bag this morning, about 4:40 standard time, a large porcupine came running, nose down, towards my sleeping spot. When it got within less than 10 feet of me, it veered off towards Lone Pine Creek, running through the willow thicket, at a rapid gait for the dense brush, until it came to the water's edge. W.C. Russell brought his shotgun while I kept watch of the porcupine. It seemed to be "noising" through the debris among the brush and water's edge regardless of the fact that it was being closely followed. Russell shot the specimen. June 3 Orion Valley, 9000 ft., 2 mi. S & 7 1/2 mi. W Independence, Inyo Co. Russell reported seeing during the day's hunting a large porcupine in a pine on the south side of the valley. There is little or no sign of porcupines in the bottom of the valley at this time that I noted. June 15 1/4 mi. N & 2 1/2 mi. E Benton Station, 6900 ft., Mono Co., Calif. Watched a young porcupine last evening at late duskly in the Artemisia flat in the creek bottom. There is considerable evidence of Erethizon scattered about the countryside.