the 'phone and followed the route which Rhody has identified as a part of my pattern linked with the mouse association. I returned in a couple of minutes, but no Rhody. (G.K.D. had also gone to the house). The question was; Had Rhody acted upon his knowledge of my pattern and gone to the place where I keep the mice?? He had, and was waiting there, motionless, for the completion of the pattern, in faith and prescience. It was a narrow squeak! I had no thought on leaving that I was following out the first portion of Rhody's discovered pattern of me. In supposing that I was, he was, as it proved, right after all, for he got his mouse. (The third for the day). August 17th. Rhody, after his mouse debauch of yesterday, deferred visiting the cage until mid-afternoon. He wanted no mice at all, preferring Hamburger. Too much mouse-hair lodged in his gizzard, or merely following his customary plan of varying his diet? His moulting. He is still not finished with his moulting, which began (or was first observed) about April 7th. (See note of Apr. 15th.) He has been moulting for four months. August 18th. Rhody continued to omit mice from the menu, preferring to eat meat and catch lizards, until late in the afternoon, when he changed his mind and followed me to the shop yard. There he ate two young, pink, hairless rats, without ceremony other than to look at himself in the tool-house window for a moment or two after each meal. He was careless about killing the rats, both kicking after they reached bottom, and one of them could be heard to squeal at least once when all the way down! This internal protest brought no responsive action from the bird at all. It may be that he enjoys music with his meals. August 19th. Rhody again "lay off" of mice during the forenoon, but at about 2:30 P.M., followed to the shop-yard, gobbled two young rats in quick succession, hung around as if for more, but refused to be tempted by a mouse. Then followed a long preening session on top of the cage. At about 4:20 he came down to observe possibilities, stood in front of me and caught tossed worms. Here he introduced a new stunt, according to my recollections. These notes have referred to his habit of "shrugging his shoulders", really a short, quick partial opening and closing of his wings, when standing over a mouse or a lizard. Although at times it looks very much like an expression of disgust or impatience when things do not exactly suit him, or, at other times, and in other circumstances an expression of interest. With mice and lizards and other living creatures it may be intended to frighten them into action, for, unless extremely hungry, he wants these creatures to dash off at full speed so that he can catch them, put them down again and start all over. In the present instance, 2 or 3 times, he flirted his wings while standing stock still waiting for the next worm. The impression given was that he was trying his "hurry up" tactics on me. There was no worm in front of him.