1222 It is about 8 inches deep and is not very ragged on the outside. While I was measuring the height from the ground, which curiously enough, proved to be exactly 20 feet from the inside (bottom) of the bowl, a rustling in the branched by my ear announced Rhody's ar- ival. He calmly gettled himself in the nest and whined. The bowl is lined only on the bottom, in the middle, princi- pally with pine needles, although there is one small strip of an old sweater which I prepared for him. There was no snake in the nest. The nest is fresh and clean. It is so commodious that Rhody looked small in it. Half a dozen more road-runners could be put into it. As a rough sort of a test to see whether he might discriminate between persons, I sent Julio up the ladder. (Rhody knows him well.) Rhody got out of the nest at once and sat 6 feet away. He would not return until Julio left. With two mice and a foot and a half of cold snake under his belt, I thought Rhody would be inactive during the rest of the day and seek sunny spots in which to restore his calories to nor- mal, but that is not the way it worked out, for he was, if anything more enterprising than usual. There is a section of sound-deading material, consisting of a loose felt between sheets of heavy paper, lying on a waste heap ready for burning. Rhody took especial de- light in pulling out the felt and throwing it away. The felt would make ideal lining for his nest, yet he has not used any of it. He also had one or two bouts with the rope end hanging from one of the awnings of the cage. Most surprising, however, was his helping himself to a goodly lump of hamburger at 4:15 and gulping it down. July 3rd. Rhody, at 8:30 A.M. in the nest, whined for attention. About 9:30 he followed to the shop for a mouse. This he took to the nest with complete honors en route. In a half hour he was down searching the wood-pile where he first looked for the chipmunk. A second mouse, given him late in the afternoon, went through all of the ritual except the mirror part. For the mirror Rhody substituted a window in the tool-house and the glass over the seed-bed. July 4th. At 8:45 A.M. Rhody took a thick, heavy twig up to nest 5-36 and remained there for a half hour. On coming down he inspected the dormitory tree and the glass house, but decided upon Brownie's old nest site as a place in which to move twigs about and mew at me. He was especially vocal for about 10 minutes. When he came down and got his mouse at the shop he carried out his full ritual, ending in nest 5-36. I was absent the rest of the day. July 5th. Rhody came for his first mouse about 9 A.M.--full ritual: mirror and nest. A little later he added to the nest, showing his material at the mirror first. During the middle of the day and well into the afternoon he was not seen here. He was given a mouse at 6:30 P.M., coming to the shop for it,