The food of the bushy-tailed wood rat is varied and includes insects and vegetation. A captive specimen that escaped in the University of Washington Zoölogical Laboratories killed and ate a number of lizards. Embryos found from April 18 to June 14 varied in number from 3 to 5. =Neotoma cinerea occidentalis= Baird _Neotoma occidentalis_ Baird, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, p. 335, 1855. _Neotoma cinerea occidentalis_ Merriam, N. Amer. Fauna, 5:58, July 30, 1891. _Type._--Obtained at Shoalwater Bay (Willapa Bay), Pacific County, Washington, by J. G. Cooper, in June, 1854; type in United States National Museum. _Racial characters._--Size large; color of upper parts cinnamon brown. _Measurements._--A male and a female from Glade Creek, 1/2 mile north of the Columbia River, Benton County, measure, respectively: total length 425, 395; length of tail 181, 176; hind foot 50, 44; ear 32, 31; weight 532.5, 330.0 grams. _Distribution._--Throughout the state except in the Blue Mountains. _Remarks._--Specimens from the Olympic Mountains and western Washington are slightly duller-colored than specimens from eastern Washington and young from western Washington are more bluish, less gray, than young individuals from the Columbian Plateau. The specimens from the Columbian Plateau show some resemblance to _alticola_. Specimens from northeastern Washington are more like typical _occidentalis_. =Neotoma cinerea alticola= Hooper _Neotoma cinerca alticola_ Hooper, Univ. California Publ. Zoöl., 42:409, May 17, 1940. _Type._--Obtained at Parker Creek, 5,500 ft., Warner Mountains, Modoc County, California, by N. B. Stern on June 22, 1916; type in Museum of Vertebrate Zoölogy. _Racial characters._--Similar to _Neotoma c. occidentalis_ but slightly paler, with paler hind feet and narrower sphenopalatine vacuities. _Measurements._--A female from Stay-a-while Spring, Columbia County, measures: total length 387; length of tail 171; hind foot 43; ear 33; weight 330 grams. _Distribution._--Southeastern Washington, south of the Snake River. _Remarks._--The only adult specimen available from the Blue Mountains shows well the characters attributed to _alticola_. =Synaptomys borealis wrangeli= Merriam Northern lemming mouse _Synaptomys (Mictomys) wrangeli_ Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 10:63, March 19, 1896. _Synaptomys (Mictomys) truei_ Merriam, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 10:62, March 19, 1896 (type from Skagit Valley, Skagit County, Washington). _Synaptomys borealis wrangeli_ Howell, N. Amer. Fauna, 50:26, June 30, 1927. _Type._--Obtained at Wrangel, Alexander Archipelago, Alaska, by C. P. Streator on September 6, 1895; type in United States National Museum. _Racial character._--Dark color.