At 2:15 he was still there. The sun now came out for a few minutes; the paths and bushes began to steam and Rhody wandered off; I went back to work; the sky again became heavy with clouds, but there was no more rain during the afternoon. At 5 P.M. I went to Rhody's night roost to see if the chilly, gloomy weather had caused him to advance his roosting time; but it had not. At 5:45 he was sitting on top of the cage, but came down to get a mouse at the tool house. One short bit of ceremony and he downed it. There was now nothing more to be done, so he remained standing by me, doing exactly that. This is the period of the day when, his appetite satisfied, it is too late to search for a mate and build nests, and too early to go to bed, consequently there remains no inducement to further activity. I watched him for a few minutes longer (until 6 P.M.) then left him there. April 27th. The day dawned clody and chilly. Watching a Road-runner "Mouse-Cycle". About 9:20 A.M. I began looking for Rhody, but he was "nowhere!" However he had apparently observed me and came up behind me from "somewhere", eager for a mouse, bright and animated. On receiving it at the tool-house he immediately began his ritual (9:30) and for the next hour and ten minutes during which I never lost sight of him, his horizontal tail-wag was almost continuous, ceasing only at such times as he became intent upon some distant sound or scene, or sat down to catch a few sunbeams on his back each time the sun came out for a few seconds; or for the five minutes during which he sat on the thin top wire of the fence and could not crisk disturbing his balance by unnecessary gestures. The mouse was not taken directly to the mirror at the cage, but over the north fence and through the bushes of the slope parallel to the fence and about 10 or 15 yards away, in a general westerly course. Progress was slow as he threaded his way through the chaparral, walking slowly and covering but 2 to 6 feet between pauses to bow, hroo and wag his tail with greater vigor. (His tail is so heavy that his body "wags" too as a compensating counter- balance). After about an hour of this he flew up to the fence near me, then headed for the mirror at the cage, at last, by way of a shop window, then to nest 3-37 where he ate the mouse at once. He was not observed again until 2 P.M., when Julio gave him a large mouse, which he ate at once. He then repaired to his present favored loafing place: between the cage and the loquat tree and for more than two hours, was not seen to shift from the spot where he lay in the sun, or change his posture. Until nearly 6 P.M. he was still within a few feet of the same place. April 28th. Rhody was not seen until 12:30 P.M. Although I was looking for him at that time, he found me first and followed promptly for a mouse--a very lively one which he had to drop 2 or 3 times and recapture. I had to leave without observing his further behavior, and did not return until about 6 P.M. Julio says he came for an- other mouse about 3:30 P.M. R seems to have lost all interest in his nest by the living room window and I would not be surprised if he had discovered another place in which a nest "just has" to be built and is now engaged