1606 Thrashers. Brokenwing not seen all day. Neo ditto. No thrasher song now being heard. N2 has not been certainly seen since the last chick died. July 29th. Again Rhody disappeared without breakfast, and was not seen again until after 6 P.M., when he was seen to enter the cage and get some meat. He was now ready for a mouse on top of this and it was quickly swallowed without ceremony. He has now had but two mice in four days. It looks as if there might be something in the change-of-diet hypothesis. Just before Rhody returned there was a loud disturbance amongst the quail near the entrance and two adults with a flock of youngsters burst out while loud screams as from a captured bird sounded from the shrubbery on the bank. I had already dashed to the scene, thinking Rhody might be the culprit (though he has never been seen to attack quail) when a hawk flew out of the bushes within three feet of my face and darted away carrying nothing. July 30th. About 7:30 Julio gave Rhody a small mouse when Rhody refused a larger one. (Again the discrimination as to size). This time Rhody did not go away and I found him resting near the cage at 9 A.M. An Anna humming-bird came to a lily four feet from him and began to probe the blossoms. Rhody immediately crouched low and concentrated his attention on the bird as if about to spring at it. However, as this pose involves practically the first movement in assuming the spread-eagle "sun-fit" and temperature conditions (about 70°) were suspicious, Rhody almost immediately forgot about the hummer and spread out into appropriate posture. Even when the hummer hovered over him, he did not stir. As I passed him he rose, tagged along behind, followed by the hummer part way to the tool-house and only about an hour and a half after eating his first mouse, accepted a second and downed it without ritual of any kind. (His "pipes" are now free of mouse fur?). He now sought a place to preen and at once became the object of attention of two hummers; two Bewick wrens; one robin; two brown towhees and some other unidentified birds--paying not the slightest heed to any of them. This proved to be a day of much loafing-, preening and sun-fitting at home. About 2 P.M. he had his third mouse of the day. July 31st. Rhody had already gone away before 7 A.M. Up to now (4 P.M. he has not been seen. At 4:10 P.M. I walked quickly into the cage, not suspecting Rhody's presence and therefore not being careful to avoid abrupt movements, and found that he had eaten some of his meat. I heard a slight sound behind me and saw Rhody on his "armchair shelf"; my head must have passed within one foot of him and I had not seen him and he must have tolerated action on my part which ordinarily he would have considered as menacing his safety! Rhody wanted no mouse, but after a prolonged "sun-fit" that started him panting and hurrying into the shade, he went up into that same acacia tree that he affected at about this time of year (for the first time in months) and composed himself to rest. This is the tree which, as pointed out last year, gives him an apportionment between light and shade such that, with temperatures in the eighties, it is not necessary for him to move from sun to shade and vice versa at frequent intervals in order to be comfortable.