1236. Mr. O'Neill and I examined the tree, but could not see him, but the expected window was there and a branch of the tree almost touched it. This window was the one through which he entered the room. Mrs. O'Neill said that, while lying awake about 7 A.M. (about the first of the month) she heard rustling in the tree and Rhody appeared at the window, carefully stepped over some potted plants on the sill, entered the room and perched on a chair, looking all around him curiously. When she stirred slightly to get a better view he left quietly, again avoiding the plants. August 8th. At about 7:30 A.M. I looked off toward the O'Neill house. Rhody was out in the field in front catching insects, probably grasshoppers. I went out in the street to a rock about 125 yards from him and called. He responded by moving slowly in my direction--down, then up the hill--5 or 6 feet at a time, not over- looking opportunities to catch insects. He had to come up a steep bank to reach me. At the foot of it he began to look about his feet for the worms that I had not tossed to him, came to the rock and caught real worms expertly, finally sitting within arm's reach, taking them from hand. During all this time he had not uttered a sound. When I left he refused to follow. At 1 P.M. he was back here wiping his bill upon every convenient object interminably--a sure sign that he had been in the cage eating Hamburger. R, A and T always did this very thoroughly after eating raw meat, even though it had not come in contact with the outside surfaces of their bills. He next sought his perch in his present day-time acacia, rested there for a few minutes and then came to see what I had to offer. I got him a medium sized mouse-- eaten without display. Next sunning was in order--spread-eagle only, since it is hot enough. Thereafter preening and resting in the inside of the cage until 2:30. At that time he came and placed himself in front of me where I sat in the shade. This proved to be a hint that he want- ed another mouse, so he trotted happily after me to the shop, where he had another medium mouse. This one kicked too hard when he got it down, so he disgorged it, gave it another squeeze and swallowed it, still kicking. Instead of going away, he stood stock still for several minutes. I got him a very small mouse. This creature went to Rhody and sniffed at his feet. R merely touched him with his bill and went to look at himself in the tool-house window. There he managed to acquire, by accident, a leaf hanging six inches below his bill by a spider-web. This puzzled him, because when he turned his head, the leaf swung into view and when he low- ered his head to look at it, the leaf went down also. He made no attempt to remove it, enduring the affliction phlegmatically, and when he finally walked away, the leaf fell off. Later in the afternoon he came out of the cage, where he had been resting and preening, to where I sat with a visitor. I think he really wanted another mouse, but was overawed. I made no move to get one for him, and whetehr or not that was the inciting cause, he proceeded to clown about with rattle-boo's in our immediate vicinity, finally darting off, as if in disgust, to preen in the shade. August 9th. The first paragraph of yesterday's notes applies almost