1535 November 4th. R not sleeping in regular roost? Rhody was not in his house at 7:30 A.M. and not in sight else- where. At 9:30 I came upon him sunning at the sage patch by the glade. He had already eaten his meat at the cage, but was pleased to catch worms tossed to him. (Temp. 57°, slightly hazy, light breeze from the north). One thrasher comes; eats berries--un- usual here. No sounds of thrashers up to 10 A.M.; but a little later one bird came to the oval lawn without a sound and ate pyracantha berries as greedily as a hermit thrush--an almost unprecedented action for a thrasher here, since with rare exceptions, they do not touch ber- ries, here. R stick close to Rhody does not seem to have left the place at all until bed-time. He cleaned out his meat dish at the cage three times and had one mouse. About 3:30 P.M. I began to watch him rather closely, as I thought it probable that he would not go to his regular roosting place. I suspect that he may have been attacked there by a hawk as he was going to roost, or possibly by a horned owl while in his house The Cooper and sharp-shinned hawks are now here for the winter and have begun their raids through the trees and shrubbery. (I shot a Cooper hawk this week from the kitchen window). Horned owls are now being frequently heard at night also. Locating it. About 3:45 Rhody, who had been sunning at various points near the glade for hours, began his westward march along the path that leads through the orchard and I followed. But he was still near the glade when he crawled under the fence at the top of the bank into the "chaparral" of the slope. He began to look up into the trees as if considering roosting in one of them. Finally he selected a euca- lyptus (E. amygdalina, "peppermint gum"), went up about ten feet and sat for several minutes quietly in one place. He then began to look higher and gradually moved up to about 20 feet and tried var- ious places, none of which seemed to suit, presumably partly because they had no tail rests. Finally he jumped across a space of three or four feet to the adjoining tree of the same kind and, after sev- eral trials, found one where there was support for his tail. There he settled, about 4:15, presumably for the night. 5:00. He is still there. 7:05. " " " Evidently this is the place. RHODY'S NEW ROOSTING PLACE FOUND. This is it. Several new "firsts" for Rhody. This is the first time that Rhody (a) has been known to select a night roost inside the property lines of this place; (b) has been seen to take a fourth roosting place; (c) has been known to roost so high. Comment on new site. This tree is of the tall, slender type and it will he whipped around in high winds, especially those from the south-east in the winter. It also offers little if any protection from rain. It is, further, in a very public location, being practically at the sidewalk and the street in front is a gathering and lounging place for dogs. However it does offer three of the cardinal features which seem to be indispensable for a roadrunner night roost: 1. An extended view over a wide area near at hand, 2. A clear passageway through the air to a landing field close by. In this case, as in the three others, the landing field begins at the tree itself. 3. Unobstructed view of the sun at sunset--in the present instance only when the sun is setting well south of west.