1555 Dec. 1st. (Sunrise 7:06, sunset 4:50). A dull morning, no thrasher sounds. At 8:25, as I approached Rhody's roost, a hawk darted out from a nearby tree. Rhody was still in his roost, but appeared aware of the presence of the intruder. For the first time Neo did not respond to my invitation to come for worms, nor could he be seen in the bushes. No other birds were visible, except under the bushes. Hawk, probably. (49°). At 9:30 Rhody was still in his roost and most other birds pretty well concealed. Neo was not to be found, but in the area which he usually occupies were goldencrown and Gambel sparrows, the two kinds of towhees, wrentits, a hermit thrush, an Anna hum- mer. I feel certain that Neo is elsewhere, otherwise he would have come out. At 10:20 sun breaking through. No change as to R and N. At 10:30 Rhody sailed down to land at my feet on the orchard path. He lost no time in following for a mouse, but was careful to keep to cover wherever possible and dart across the open spaces. The mouse finished, he ran as fast as he could to the sage patch, using his wings. After a short rest here he moved to his bush on the upper side of the entrance driveway and did not come down from there permanently until 1:30, when he followed to the tool-house for his second mouse. Half-way there stopped and rattle-bood once. This time he did not wait to eat the mouse, but ran off with it to the glade. 2:15 still there. As yet no sign of Neo. At 3:51 he began his slow ascent to his roost in the eucalypt- us tree, and it was not until 4:24 that he was settled in it. As in the case of his old roost, he invariably takes the same route through the ladder tree. At present the only use he has for the house, so laboriously installed for him, is as a landing stage . (cloudy, dead calm, 54°). At 4:45 gorgeous sunset colors were complemented in the east by a magnificent rainbow forming a complete semicircle--a somewhat rare combination and mildly surprising (until rain began to fall almost immediately). At 5 a thrasher was heard scrapping as if going to roost somewhere in Neo's domain, but that bird was not seen. Dec. 2nd. (Sunrise 7:07, sunset 4:50). Some thrasher scrapping off to the east in the early morning; but no song. Some rain during the night, but sun out this morning. Partial eclipse of the sun due this afternoon. At 8:25 Rhody was till in his roost. Repeated observation up to 10:25 showed him still there. No sign of Neo. At 10:35 Neo was back in his "regular" place and responded to offers of worms by coming through the fence and picking them off of the ground about 6 feet from me. He had lost some of his former confidence, unmistakably; but after having perhaps a dozen worms, I was able to get him to come to me along the orchard path about 100 feet, to where I was watching Rhody, and here much of his