drink. I do not know when he drank before. There can be little doubt of his eating and drinking less now than during his more active season. He is rarely seen forag- ing. There are grasshoppers and lizards to be had with little effort on his part still. One of the former alighted about 4 feet from him while he was making up his mind whether to drink or not; he merely looked at it and watched it fly away without interest. He stayed near me about three quarters of an hour then went under the fence into the bushes. His roosting time was not noted. The wind had ceased almost completely. December 11th. (Sunrise 7:15, sunset 4:51. Max. in Oakland yester day, 69. min. 45). At 9:05 Rhody was in his roost, (Bright. calm, temp.?) but had shifted slightly to get the sun on his back. At 9:40 he had shifted to the porch of his house. He was still there 5 minutes later when I left. At 10:40 as I drove up in my car he was at his post, pleased to catch a few worms, then turning his back one irrevocably. At 1:20 I set up the motion picture camera to try and get a "shot" of him coming from his post and over the fence to get meat from me in the Clearing. Naturally he chose this time to change his pattern by refusing to come at all. Instead he dusted, the customary sign at this time of day, at this season, showing that he was finished for the day; and so I interpreted it. He now headed for his ladder tree, arriving at position No.1 at 1:35. There he remained for 18 minutes (in the shade). He now changed his mind about going to roost (3rd. time witnessed) dropped to the ground went to the south bank to sun his back. (This was one of those days when, for me, the sun is a little too hot for comfort in its full rays and I prefer partial shade; full shade bing too cold after a few minutes sitting quietly). I went to Rhody and offered him meat, which he took, though he had not been interested before. I waited ten minutes to see if he would go to roost, but his reaction to sun and shade seems to be about the same as mine, for he sought the spotted shade under a scraggly bush on the edge of the bank and stayed so long there that I had to leave to keep an engagement. Brownie was much given to undersong during the day, with a tendency to plant himself in the middle of the driveway about 40. feet from my chair(where the branches of live-oaks shut out the sky) then gradually approach me in a roundabout course through the shrubbery finally winding up in the bushes three or four feet be- hind me and there continue his song indefinitely. There I could catch every nuance. This quarter song is exceedingly complex. At present he is often introducing the "hen motif" but with many variations and embellishments; so far as I can detect, scarcely ever twice the same. On these occasions Nova may be out of sight nearby, and while his object seems to be to make me aware of the presence of a hungry bird, it may be that he also wishes to hold Nova. (This, incidentally is not new behavior on his part). December 12th. (Sunrise 7:16, sunset 4:51. Minimum temp. during the night 44). Some full song by B in the early morning hours. Later: repe- tition of habit of preceding paragraph.