Oct.30th. About the same as yesterday. I released a live mouse in front of Rhody, in the orchard. He chased it and caught it in a few steps. The mouse squealed and he dropped.itIt went through the fence. Rhody quickly found an opening under the fence and caught the mouse again easily. One squeeze completely disabled it. R then put it on the ground to give it a chance to run again, but it could not. He then brought it back through the hole under the fence and swallowed it whole. Oct. 31st. The second rain of more than 0.05 inches since July 1st. began falling during the night. At 9 A.M. it was raining hard and I went down to see how Rhody was faring. He was in bed looking pretty wet on top, dry below and, doubtless, dry beneath his feathers. At 9:15 he came down, ran across the street toward his regular morning hunting ground, and as the bank was wet and slippery, took off from the street and sailed upward to the top of the bank, at that point about 6 feet high. He did not need to flap his wings. R and salamander. An hour or two later he was near my west fence. I showed him a salamander (newt, water-dog) which I had in a wide-necked bot- tle. He was about 15 feet away on the other side of the fence, but quickly showed interest, came through the fence and reached down into the bottle which I held in my hand and pulled out the newt. He went through his regular lizard and snake performance, then swallowed it whole. Later in the day he performed his mirror dance and got so excited that I removed the mirror. Brownie and nest. It cleared before noon and B went up to his nest for a long stay. When he left I placed a ladder and examined it. There was an acorn in the nest. Usually all such foreign bodies