Rhody's attitude toward me since his serious "accident" does not appear to have changed materially, if at all, though he is somewhat more watchful of his surroundings perhaps. Possibly he remains under cover more. There is nothing definite that I can fix upon in his behavior to indicate a positive change due to his late experience. It may be that his failure to come for meat and his remaining outside the property at present is a result of that experience. His return to his old observation point at the south bank of the west lot today may be a sign of return to normal. However, his daily habits are, in detail, always subject to variation under normal conditions. November 1st. Brownie heard singing about 6 A.M. At 8:15 A.M. a visit to Rhody's tree disclosed him still in his bunk. It is a long time since I have been able to catch him in this lazy trick. Due to location of the tree the sun had not yet reached his perch. (Fair, temp. 49). At 9:07 he was still there showing no signs of coming down. The sun had reached him, but clouds in the east were occasionally covering it. (Note on Termites, Argentine ants, birds, based on observation of yesterday). Yesterday I was sitting at the steps near the oval lawn- Brownie on my knee waiting patiently for me to hand him one worm at a time--11:30 A.M. "Flying ants" began to come out of the ground of the driveway at my feet--termites, I suppose. I saw them as soon as a half dozen had appeared. Their bodies were a jet, glossy black. Their wings were a dull, iridescent, smoky mother-of-pearl, very fragile. They had dug their way out from below through the solid crust. Other colonies began to appear nearby. As is usual here, after the first significant rain, these creatures invariably appear. Brownie saw them, went down and ate a few. A hermit thrush came and ate cast off wings. Song and crowned sparrows and brown towhees joined in the feast. None of the birds were particularly appreciative of them. At the two holes nearest me flesh-colored ("white") wingless termites, two at each hole, appeared just within the opening seeming to want to come out but [illegible] (?) to do so. At one hole they did not come out at all. At the other they did finally, ran about it, not getting more than 3 or 4 inches away from it, then re-entered, not to appear again. (The workers that had opened the way to the surface). (I know nothing about termites). The winged termites, in part, hovered about in the air nearby, the rest of them crawled around on the ground, some evidently trying (and succeeding) in getting their wings off. In doing this they fluttered their wings violently and tried to push them off with their abdomens. Couples were now seen in tandem, head to tail, now in contact, now not, running around. Sometimes both had wings unshed, sometimes both with wings, sometimes the leader only, sometimes the trailer only. When perhaps a hundred or so had issued from each colony no more appeared. All eventually dispersed but a few here and there. They seemed to have left their wings behind them. None re-entered their holes. In a half hour practically nothing more was seen of them. All activity in