the few places on the property where there are no trees to the south and west. It is also sheltered from the north and east by the higher ground and trees. It is warm and secluded and has an extended outlook west and south. I have hoped that Rhody would consider it a better place to loaf than the west lot, but today is one of the few times I have seen him there. There is, further, a small oak on its east side, somewhat isolated from others that I have always thought fulfills his speci- fication for a roosting place admirably, with the possible exceptin that, as it is a pollard, its branches are perhaps too nearly verti- cal to afford comfortable roosting places. This could, of course, be rectified. It is in this immediate environment that I think Rhody would be safest and most comfort- able. And I wonder that he passes it up for the present roosting place). When he went to his roost today, he left this spot and entered his tree where a chilly wind was blowing at the time, showing, I suppose, the force of habit prevailing over comfort. Yet he does change his habits from time to time-- perhaps not the basic ones but certainly some of the minor ones. December 3rd. No marked change in weather conditions from yesterday. Rhody was in his roost at 10:15 and was not looked up again until noon, when he was across the street from his post. On being called from the fence, he was very slow about re- sponding and instead of coming to me directly disappeared in the brush near his roost, not coming to the fence for 15 minutes. As a mild rebuke for his indifference I withheld offering meat until he cried for it, then gave it to him. At about 1:30 he was not to be seen, so I searched the brush finding him sitting about 4 feet from the ground in a low, scraggly oak near the fence, but well concealed. While I stood by him, he crouched low as a hawk darted through the undergrowth. For the next ten minutes or so (until I got tired and left) he remained rigid, except for head and neck, staring with intense concentration at various points along the hawk's path. He utterly disregarded my presence 3 feet from him and had turned his back toward me. No further observations were made the rest of the day. Brownie and Now seem to have abandoned, for the time being at least, their long continued absences. December 4th. (Sunrise 7:09. sunset 4:50). As I drove by the roost at 10:45 Rhody was still in it. At 12:30, on my return, he was sitting at his post and captured a few worms. At 1:15 I called him to the fence from his lookout. I want- ed him to become accustomed to the place described Dec. 2nd. in the south west corner, so stood back 20 feet from the fence. He walked up and down the fence considering whether he should fly over to me, pausing at the point where I have been giving him the food. Finally he decided to crawl under at the one point where it is possible and which he knows. This place was 30 or 40 feet to the north and entirely out of sight from where I sat on the ground in the open; but when he had once made up his mind, he ran