Unmoved by dis- play of luxuries Rejects sporting opportunity of- fered by mice. Lizard interests when moving. R recovers appetite. At 3:55 Rhody had recovered his appetite sufficiently to get the last piece of meat from the cage. Also he lost no time in fol- lowing to the shop-yard where the lizard was again offered him. His interest was keen this time, but he tried too much of his fancy business and the reptile escaped and Rhody could not find him. I therefore consoled him with a mouse, with which he took no chances. September 19th. "The" fly stabs B. When sitting on my knee this morning Brownie undoubtedly received a stab from, I suppose, "the" fly, for his reaction was in accordance with his approved standard: a quick leap into the air, precipitate flight, a short period of tense waiting, then return to normal, which in this case meant coming back for more worms. Rhody illustrates acute hearing of RRs. Rhody illustrated what I take to be the acute hearing of road-runners commented upon in connection with Archie and Terry in these notes. R was standing with back not quite squarely turned toward me 20 feet from where I was sitting, looking off over the field below and to the south. Suddenly, without preliminaries of any kind, he dashed toward me, stopped at an accumulation of dead leaves on the ground, listened intently a moment, then quickly scraped the leaves aside and pulled out a large spider which he swallowed without preparation. The spider was 15 feet from his starting point. I do not think Rhody saw it at all, but heard it. Road-runners are "always" listening. R kills yellow- jacke t but does not eat it. A few minutes before a yellow-jacket buzzed behind him. A quick turn, one snap and it was killed, no further attention being paid to it. As noted long ago, he is afraid of these insects and apparently does not consider them favorably as food, whereas Archie, Terry and all thrashers at this place eat them. (Or rather, A and T did at first, but lost their taste for them wholly or in part, in due course. Perhaps with growing experience. R's bedtime. Rhody jumped across the space from the "ladder" tree to his roost in the regular oak at 4:35 P.M. (Temp.73; clear; windless). His roosting time on the 15th. was probably early. Under similar weather conditions, satisfaction of hunger seems to be the same time, since none of them showed any disposition to run away. All were within 6 inches to 2 feet from him. He kept his place unmoved by this display of luxuries. I was now down to meal-worms. Rhody would neither catch them nor pick them up. Plainly he knew that he was full, yet he remained, perhaps in hopes of a miracle of some sort, or possibly a chance for some sport. The mouse began to move off. R watched with interest, saw it disappear, but did nothing about it. The tiny mouse now began to crawl off. The motion attracted R's attention, but he did not-hing about that either. After a minute or two waiting he took a couple of steps toward the lizard and stood looking down at it. Finally the lizard bolted, R after it like a flash. But when it stopped, so did R. This was repeated. This time the lizard crawled under some leaves right under R's nose. R pretended to look for it every where else. I dug the lizard out. R "looked surprised", lost interest and wandered away. Now why did he follow me to the shop at all if he wanted no- th ing? Acquired habit? Curiosity, or what?