1366. which he used to sit often during rainy weather last winter. 12:34. He is now on the cross-piece under that bench, out of the rain but not out of the wind entirely. A little further along is the shelter on the ground under the old oak. If he goes there, as he used to, he will be out of both wind and rain. 1:25. Still under the bench with his feathers blown the "wrong way". He wanted no meat. 2:35. No change whatever from note of 1:25, as to Rhody. R5 shifted his yesterday's attitude mice and has had three today already. He is dry and comfortable in his cage, whereas Rhody, with the shop, tool-house , labor- atory and this room freely offered him, insists upon being miserable. 3:05. Rhody still in the same place ; raining heavily still with strong southerly wind. 3:45 Gone without eating the meat that I placed beside him on the cross-piece. Rhody retires to his house in the roost tree.at 3:30 (Julio). 5:00 As I was starting my car in order to go down and see if Rhody was occupying his house in the roost tree, Julio who is intensely interested in Rhody and extremely fond of him, intercepted me--having divined my intentions-- to tell me that Rhody had gone up into his house at 3:30 and was "way inside". Here we have an example of Rhody's behavior on a nasty, wet day, and while the situation is complicated somewhat by the fact that he had had all the food he wanted, it is probable that the early re- tirement was induced, in part if not entirely, by the weather con- ditions. Hummers. The humming-birds seem to be thriving; the smaller continuing to eat more than his fellow. They are not quite so fearless as at first; perhaps now that they no longer have the stress of weather to overcome and have counteracted the effects of semi- starvation, they have become more conscious of other dangers. (Temperatures this day of order of 45 min. 56 max.). February 5th. Day of Notable Developments in Road-runner World. Bright from sunrise until 10 A.M., then increasing cloudiness At 9:30 A.M. Rhody, in the west lot, saw me first and was already headed for me when I saw him. He flew over the fence, evidently expecting a mouse instead of the meat offered, for he eyed it keenly without advancing to take it, looking first at it then at me. This kept up for a minute or two, then he cried; but I had no mouse for him, so he took the meat. R "wing-slaps" At 10:45 R5 showed by his actions that he saw Rhody coming. I then saw Rhody taking a drink at the glade. I cooed, koke-koked e.t.c. He responded by making his funny backward wing-slap and marching a few steps forward stiff-leggedly, ducking his head in time with his wing slap: one duck for each two slaps. He went down the driveway nearly to the entrance, changed his mind, picked up a twig, carried it to the mirror, ignoring R5 entirely, pressed it against the glass and dropped it, all without display of any kind. Brings twig to mirror. ignoring R5. Goes to nest 2-36. He now went over the fence to the north, running directly toward the tree in which he built Nest 2-36 last year, climbed to the nest without hesitation. I climbed laboriously over the fence,