1293. His feathers were puffed out slightly; he yawned occasionally; stretched once; dozed frequently with closed eyes, but, for the most part, his eyes were open and he reacted slightly to extra- neous events, such as: especially noisy and fast passage of cars on the street below, sudden sharp sounds made by carpenters build- ing houses a couple of hundred yards away, calls of surveyors on the street, passage of large birds, etc. "Sudden" sounds only. At 11:45 he moved over to his house and inspected it inside with apparent interest for 10 minutes, and At 11:55 launched himself from its porch in a soundless glide to the street, proceeding from there to his lookout on the bank. There he sunned his back for a few minutes and was but slightly interested in worms, catching them, however, with an air as if it were only to oblige me, and not hesitating to turn his back and ignore me completely. (Temp. 68). Brownie was again called from the south east territory where he was heard scrapping about 9:30 A.M. This time he was not ex- cited when he arrived. At 1:45 I decided to take Rhody a mouse. He was at his post, but came quickly to the fence to reach through and take the animal. The mouse proved tough and once R threw it away in sudden alarm as if it had bitten him. He picked it up, shook it by the back of the neck and swallowed it hastily, still kicking. He seems to be pretty confident that a mouse can do no damage inside, and , to swallow it, is the best way to prevent injury to himself. Rhody now came back to me (because I was on the easiest route to the place where he wanted to go) acknowledging my presence by couettish flirts of his tail, then dusted (a bedtime symptom), tore off in one of his looping, sidewise-running, tail and wing- spreading evolutions through and around the bushes, with pauses to confront an imaginary enemy. A happy and contented bird, unless I am much mistaken. I hurried to where I could command a view of the roost and ladder trees. At 2:08 he was already in position 3 and, at 2:11, made his last move to the roost. The quickest act- ion yet seen. (Temp 68). His "working" day was, therefore 2 hours and 16 minutes. The question naturally arises: If I had not happened to take him the mouse when I did, when would he have gone to roost? If this were a strictly scientific investigation, obviously I should withhold gifts of food and see what he would do about it; but it is not, except in that events are reported precisely as I see them. Rhody, I believe, is to a certain extent, a spoiled bird. He is undoubtedly eating less than during his more active season and possibly is counting upon my furnishing that. He does not come to the cage for meat now and sticks to the west lot most of the time. In fact, since he was last reported at the Fish place, I have not seen him more than a couple of hundred feet from the roost trees. November 21st. Rhody was observed in his roost two or three times during the morning up to about 11:30 when I took Messrs. Grinnell, Delacour and Moffitt down to see him. Two of us went up the bank and stood below him without disturbing him. His rising time was not noted, but he was at his post on the bank about 12:30 (?) when my visitors drove by in their car. He was a little shy, but