February 1956 Journal (1984) Univ. of Calif., Berkeley, Alameda Co., Calif. Feb 4 (cont.) was being eaten. The body was revolved without being dropped by change of position of these "claws". I covered the top + 2 sides of the aquarium with paper to prevent any disturbance to the spider as I worked at a table beside the cage. The spider kept this feeding up without moving around until about 5:00 PM. When I shone a desk lamp into the cage. At this the spider slowly moved backwards a few steps, turned towards the light + carried the mus body [illegible] into the corner nearest the light where dropped executed a short set of watch strikes the carapace, + crawled against the glass side seemingly trying to go towards the light. I removed the light + the projecting paper from the cage but the spider did not go back to the mus but alternately wandered around or stood still. About 9:30 PM. I poured water of the case into a watch glass on the floor of the aquarium. The spider which happened to be next to the watch glass (which had remained empty for a day), immediately lowered its head towards [illegible] the water and remained like that for fully 5 minutes apparently drinking while I stood nearby + watched. The spider then raised raised its body again + resumed its