1534 My arrival upon the scene was greeted with raised crest and cocked tail and indications of interest in mouse prospects. Accord- ingly I proceeded to the "mousoleum" followed quickly by Rhody minus his escort, but wrentits now took up scolding in their stead. After eating his mouse Rhody lay down on a rock at the hedge by the tool-house: a place he began to be interested in as his inter- est in his favored oak branch nearby began to wane a week or so ago. Since the arrival of the pheasant, up till now, he has not been using this place. 12 Noon. He is still there lying comfortably in semi-shade. at 12:30 He is still there. I had to leave for the rest of the afternoon. The pheasant again slept at night in the same oak. November 2nd. Rhody not behaving pret at present sticking closely to the west lot. At 8:30 A.M. I found him sunning by the "old man" near the glade. He wanted no mice, and a few minutes later when he went to the cage, he ignored the meat and went over the north fence. He joined a flock of quail feeding in the baccharis thicket on that slope and moved about amongst the birds freely without alarming them in th e slightest. For the half hour or so that he was with them there was neither sound nor movement on their part that indicated unrest due to his presence. When he came out to lie in the shade of a pine and gaze off to the north-west I left him. He seems to have remained somewhere north of this place until about 2:30 P.M., when he was found waiting at the door of the tool- house for his mouse. Roosting time. At 4:15 he was not in his house in the roost tree and there was Delayed? no sign of him elsewhere--another departure from anticipated behavior. The weather was warm and sunny. (Max. 70°). Although the pheasant was about all day and friendly, he could not be found anywhere after dark. Nov. 3rd. Thrashers away? No thrasher song this morning or yesterday. Summery weather con- tinuing. Pheasant gone. No sign of pheasant up to 11:15 A.M. R finds me. Rhody, who was not seen earlier, although looked for, presented himself before me in the garden at about 10:30 A.M. with saucy move- mens of head and tail. He received a mouse and later ate his meat at the cage. R again un- findable at despite a search through the undergrowth of the west lot inspired by scolding wrentits and spotted towhees there, whom I suspect- of having located him, as perhaps they had; but I couldn't find him. Still absent. 5:35 P.M. (Temp. 67°; sunset 5:10). Rhody was still not in his regular sleeping place; neither was he to be found in either of the only two other known places formerly used by him: the Scamell oak or the Scamells' Canary Island pine.