spirits, or plain damfoolishness. A delightful performance, sudden and unexpected, sometimes involving considerable distances (in the hundreds of feet) and subsiding as suddenly as it began, the performer calm, unruffled and appearing absolutely unconscious of having just played the clown. (4) What does Rhody do when offered meat and a live mouse simultaneously? (This should logically have been included in (3). Under present condition he chooses the mouse and his behavior is the mouse-behavior above described. (At other times he has not always chosen the mouse, as the notes show). ......(End of this memorandum)............... Continuing with daily observations: 4:55 P.M. Rain began to fall--a cold one, temp. 50. December 15th. (Sunrise, if there had been one, 7:17, sunset 4:52) Rain during the night. Light drizzle , 9 A.M. At 9:30 I went down to see how Rhody had reacted toward his new house in the tree. He was not in it and was in his preferred location. When I talked to him he showed interest and moved to another place about 2 feet away. Raining slightly. I walked away to see if he would then come down. He did and ran toward me with raised crest, took station on the bank (here 3 feet high) facing me and ma_ed once. He spread his wings out horizontally. This is the reaction to unaccustomed rain. He was rather wet out- side, but when he shook the moisture off, dust with which he keeps his under plumage charged, floated off, showing he was only super- ficially wet. He was very eager and alert to catching worms, quickly retrieving my bad shots. (Recently he has been letting them go). He shook water from his tail with a series of waves from base to tip. Occasionally he would spread his wings and let them hang down as a turkey-cock does when strutting. Very pretty and ani- mated, especially at this close range (2 to 3 feet), perfectly at ease and without fear. Soon he tore off for a short "circus", then returned. I left him there at 9:40. On my return to the house, Mrs. Scamell, whose house is just across the street from the Clearing, and had not seen Rhody and me a few minutes before, telephoned to say he was out at his post and had gone back into the bushes, suggesting that he might have returned to his roost. 11 A.M. At about 10:30 I went down to look up Rhody. Neither in his roost, at his post, nor in tree 9. Search through the wet thicket revealed nothing until, turning to look at my back- trail, there he was right behind me, slim and wet, but looking unworried and expectant. I produced a big piece of hamburger. He cried, advanced with a series of soft ooks and in a matter of a second or two it joined the meal-worms of 9:30. Note reversal of behavior of the last few days, such as early rising (in response to my presence) and early heavy feeding. (Temp. in court 45, in clearing 49; but these can not be accurately- correlated with temperatures on dry days, because the bulb s are wet. They are really "wet bulb" temperatures). 12:20. Still raining slightly. Rhody was in his daytime roosting tree, No.9. at 12 noon. (Temps.: Court 47, Clearing 51, bulbs wet). On the south side of the spur which forms the backbone of this place and which dies out in the west lot, one would not