December 24th. Rain during the night and again about 2 P.M. Rhody was already up at 10 A.M. (cloudy) and in the bushes near tree 9. At 11 A.M. he had shifted to the tree itself . He wanted no food from me, or at any rate he would not come to the fence for it. At noon he was not in sight from the Clearing. 1 P.M. ditto. 2 P.M. ditto. At 3:30 not to be found anywhere, even in his roost. But at 3:50 he was stowed away for the night, not using his shelter. (Raining slightly). This is the sort of day when one might reasonably expect him to get up late and go to roost early, yet he did not. When the various observations on his movements are analyzed, I will be quite prepared to discover that, at this time of year, it is the good weather that keeps him in his roost longest! R5 rejected a freshly killed house mouse, though he took it out of the can and dropped it in the pool. It was returned to the can together with a live white mouse. The latter he ate soon. Another one, up to 4:15 was not eaten, nor was the dead mouse. on which with me Today is the first one he has been seen to move [illegible] present in the cage. He showed "signs of life" four times altogether; the first time I found him rigid as usual and talked to him as has been my custom. He began to thaw, raised his crest and tail and began to move about a few inches quietly and unhurriedly. This happened three more times. After each he appeared to relax and be more at ease and not afraid to move his head a little. December 25th. (Sunrise 7:23, sunset 4:56). A bright, clear morning. A little full song by Brownie. At 10:30 A.M. Rhody was still in his roost (Temp. in court 44, in Clearing 52). R5 had not eaten his mouse. Rhody was not contacted again until 12:15. He was then "waiting for me" in the Clearing and cried promptly on seeing me. When I invited him to follow he did so promptly. I wanted him to find out that there was a road-runner in the cage so as to observe reactions. I gave Rhody a mouse at the cage door--he had followed me 125 yards--and as he showed no disposition to investigate or to go away, I went into the cage and invited him to follow. This he did at once, so we were all three in the cage, but R5 was up in the annex out of sight. Rhody was, I think, unaware of his presence as I do not believe he had ever seen him. Rhody now began to move about at random, eventually arriving at a point below R5. He then saw him, but did not seem excited. Neither did R5. R climbed up slowly from perch to perch toward R5. I stood close by to lend a hand, if necessary, to protect either bird and get Rhody out if events became too strenuous. Rhody now went up and sat on the same perch as R5, about two feet from him. Both birds were now in such a position that it was easy to see that Rhody is the larger. They did not seem antagonistic, looking at each other quite calmly.