1386. I drove out the driveway at 5:25, and Brownie was still singing. I passed by Rhody's night roost and noted that he there, but not in the house. R5 casts second pellet. Going back, now, to 11:30 A.M.: I overlooked recording that R5 was seen to disgorge his second pellet since his captivity. I am reasonably certain that the only other one cast was that of Jan.19. I have looked frequently for pellets without finding any, and all road-runners that I have had in the cage usually show symptoms of a desire to cast them several days in advance of the actual act. R5's diet of mice began on the 18th. or 19th of December, so his first pellet of mouse hair represents an accumulation of 30-31 days (approximately). The second pellet followed after 30 days. While the notes did not record it, R5 had eaten a mouse only an hour or two before casting the pellet. This pellet was dispersed in water in a beaker and examined at the time. Besides mouse hair it contained the lower jaw-bone of the mouse with a few other small bones (no skull) having a few fine, stringy, whitened fragments of flesh adhering. With the exception of a tooth or two, these are the first solid, skeletal residues found in any pellet; and they are accounted for by the bird's recent meal, still un- digested. The second pellet, still unexamined, seems to have a sort of "skin" covering a portion of it. R5 had had (as far as I know) nothing to eat but mice for the preceding 24 hours (the last one being at about 4 P.M. the day before). He may have eaten later the salamander which he had refused at 3:55 yesterday. He had had a lizard at 3 P.M. the day before yesterday. Thus, at the time the second pellet was cast, he was not known to have food of any kind for about 19½ hours, and he had refused food two hours before it was cast. February 19th. Dull and threatening rain. Three visits to the vicinity of the cage and the nests: 8:15, 9:15, 10:45 A.M., did not disclose Rhody. He was not looked for elsewhere. At 9:15 R5 again showed discrimination in favor of small mice. He had been jumping in and out of his can to look at the big mouse there and was plainly hungry, but would not take it. The moment I showed him a small mouse, he came for it at once. 12:05. Well, I find R5 has eaten the larger mice now, and, further, he had just ejected another pellet. (At least the one found was fresh). Evidently yesterday's effort did not complete the job. There was some fleshy matter in this one. There was no black hair in it, and the last mouse was jet black. Perhaps, then, the pellet was ejected before 9:15 and I overlooked it. Absent until 3:30 P.M.. On returning I found Rhody carrying a mouse about aimlessly. Julio says he gave it to him about an hour earlier, and that R offered it at the cage, but that when R5 came, Rhody retreated to an acacia and remained there a long time. After a long, slow march, with many stops, Rhody carried this mouse to his night roost, which he entered at 4:15. (Still cloudy). February 20th. At 8:30 A.M. Rhody was at his post on the west lot, wanting nothing from me. Well, another pellet already.