1234. Next a long spell of rest and preening in the tree above referred to. This time he removed feathers from his back and watched them fall down through the branches with a comical air of surprise. About 1:30 he followed to the shop for his second mouse of the day. About 2:30 he came down from his tree to catch worms tossed to him. At about 5 he had disappeared. I suspected he had gone to the west lot, so went to the fence and called. He soon came out of the brush and reached for worms through the wire fence. As he seemed hungry I went and got him a mouse. When he saw me returning and noted what I was carrying, he crawled hastily under the fence, came up the wall to meet me, booed and took the mouse. He still hung around, so I went and got him another small one. This he also gobbled. Four mice today--though none of them very large. August 2nd. Rhody maintained his present standard of behavior, including his recently acquired habit of using the upper annex of the cage in which to rest and preen. One mouse today. Usual roost. Brownie as usual. No evidence pointing to resumption of thrasher conventions. August 3rd. About 10 A.M. Rhody was found in the upper annex of the cage, having just eaten meat from his dish. After a long rest and preening spell he came out to investigate the doings of a young English sparrow at one of the feeding stations on top of an isolated pole about 7 feet high. As he flew up the sparrow departed. About 11 he was offered a young rat, but he chose to go up into his favorite acacia. When an alligator lizard was released about 20 feet from his perch and began to run, R could not resist the temptation and came down. This lizard wanted to fight. R after finding that the lizard would not respond to the same tactics as the blue-bellied lizards and was "onery", abandoned all idea of sport and beat the creature unmercifully upon the ground. During this operation the rest of its tail came off. (It had previously lost a part of it; hence it appears that there is more than one point where the lizard can break its tail). Both ends of the lizard now looked about the same and this may account for the fact that Rhody now swallowed it tail-end first--the first time this has been noted here--without any difficulty whatever, notwithstanding the ratchet-effect of the backwardly-pointing scales. The tail, which had been whipping about on the ground, soon followed the course taken by its original possessor. R made no attempt to "kill" it. Brownie, now (11:30 A.M. singing beautifully near the oval lawn) was heard scrapping over at the Robinsons' about 8:30 A.M. Whistling his "purple, one-two-three" call brought him home and to hand.