see them when they are small specks in the distance, as I have determined by watching him. He continues to sleep in the small oak, having evidently decided against the pine. He does not use either of the houses. Oct.26th. Yesterday's notes fit today exactly, with the addition that Rhody got up at 9:45 and one hawk flew over my head when I was sitting at the oval law and could not have cleared me by more than four feet, due to branched. Also a hermit thrush found eaten by some creature. Oct.26th. Early morning thrasher song as usual. No Bb. More hawks. The thrashers held another one of their meetings about 200 yards due east in the morning, and a confusion of thrasher sounds emerged for perhaps an hour. On Brownie's return, he occupied the nest for a long time, singing softly. A little after noon Rhody put on a splendid exhibition of"mirror- dancing" for the benefit of young Donald Brock, who brought a mouse for him. R did not leave the place until it was time to start for his roost. At about 4:10 P.M., by following his gaze from where he was sit- ting about 3 feet from the ground in an acacia, I located a sharp- shinned (or Cooper) hawk but 50 feet from him. The hawk flew and, almost immediately, there was a confused panic amongst some quail off in the direction toward which he had flown. I walked up to Rhody and offered him a dead mouse. He watched my feet as I approached, but did not flinch, stretched forth his neck and gobbled the mouse. At 4:20 (I was sitting on the ground about six feet from him) he began to get drowsy and gradually began working in the general di-