1446 About 4 P.M. another mouse was given him on application at the tool-house. This one was presented at the mirror and then subjected to the same routine as the preceding one. May 3rd. I had little time to observe Rhody today, but he had two mice and took a lizard of his own finding to his nest 8-37. May 4th. Away most of the day, but returning at 4:30 P.M., Rhody ran away when startled by my car as I passed nest 8-37. He did not go far and soon came back to carry twigs to the nest, then trot- ted along behind me to the tool house. This mouse went through the routine of mirror, motor at the Scammells' and was carried to the house-nest in the roost tree at 5:15 P.M. I do not know whether this can be considered as roosting time or not. No effort was made to check up later on it. May 5th. I did not see Rhody until noon, being very busy. At noon I looked up at nest 8:37 and he began to cry. I walked off, but he did not follow. About 15 minutes later, when I was working 50 yards away on a concrete form for a rhodendron moraine, a soft hruh, hruh, hroo-o-o-o sounded close by, and R was standing 8 feet away looking bright and expectant. I got out of my exca- vation and he turned toward the tool-house, keeping about 6 feet in front of me, looking back at me and stopping to let me catch up. I let him keep the lead and he took me to the tool-house doors then stepped aside and I entered. He now watched and cried. I gave him the mouse he wanted. There can be little doubt that his call was for me and that he wanted me to get him a mouse. The initiative was his in every respect. The stepping aside at the door looked like an act of courtesy, but, as I have pointed out before, he does not like to enter that place; furthermore, he did not care to be run over, and while he is not, I think, afraid of some act of violence on my part he is, nevertheless, careful about allowing himself to be corner- ed. In other words: He was not afraid of me as birds are supposed to be afraid of man, but as any animal (man included) fears the too close approach of a large moving object uncontrolled by him. Rhody did not report to me during the rest of the day, and at 5:20 he was not to be found. May 6th. At 6:30 A.M. (Cloudy) Rhody was heard rattle-booing off to the south west. I did not see him until 10 A.M. He was then sitting quietly on a pile of earth in the garden under construction at the Nichols' place north of the fence. He was not interested in me at all, so I returned to my job of mixing concrete at the gravel bin about 40 feet from the cage and a hundred feet from Rhody, but where he could see and hear me. In about 15 minutes he came, without being called and gobbled a large centipede which I had tossed out into the open a few minutes before. He now waited patiently for action on my part; so I went to the shop, followed by him and gave him a jet black mouse. This he carried without cere- mony to the place where he had caught the centipede, killed it,