Rhody again suddenly remembers the owl. About 4:30 P.M. Rhody was preening and sunning in the spread-eagle pose at one of his favored spots east of the cage and near the north boundary. He had been there for several (?) hours. As I watched from a distance of about 50 feet he suddenly jumped to his feet, ran swiftly past me in the direction of the tool-house, continued through the shop-yard and jumped up to the sill of the office window to stare in at the owl. The distance traversed was about 60 yards in a direct line--longer by the route he followed, as he had to avoid trees, shrubbery and pass through two gates, making two right-angled turns. From where he was summing nothing can be seen of the shop and office on account of the irregular topography and the shrubs and trees. The owl, being dead, could not attract his attention by sound or movement; further, it was back in the gloom of the office. Rhody had been fully occupied in his own affairs for hours and had not gone to see the owl earlier in the day as far as known. There was no occurrence evident to me that would tend to remind him of that creature. Apparently he just suddenly remembered the owl and deliberately went to look at it. I now brought the owl out and he began to crawl around on his belly, approaching to about four feet. After 10 minutes or so of this he started off in the direction of the west lot, but came back and was given the second mouse. There is now no longer any display over these animals. Thrashers. Thrashers again sang in the early morning and there is evidence that they are gathering for the "convention" period. August 14th. Early song by the thrashers, but none during the rest of the day here. Rhody home all day, making one visit to the owl. He had one large mouse and one small one and sat much in his optimum tree. For the first time since it was commented upon herein several weeks ago as being a new development in his behavior, he crawled on his belly and wahnked when Julio offered him a mouse. It is to be noted that he crawls on his belly in the presence of the owl, but does not wahnk ( or hakh). There is perhaps some correlation between this performance with the owl and renewal of it with Julio. I find that Julio speaks to him more roughly than I do and is more abrupt in his behavior toward him. The common element here seems to be fear. Rhody again slept in his old house. August 15th. Thrasher song was heard about 5:30 A.M., ... before About 10:30 A.M. strikingly shrill thrasher song sounded from the vicinity of Rhody's house No.2 and more than one bird seemed to be there. I went down to investigate. One of the thrashers was seen sitting beneath the tree just outside the fence, doing nothing. At a distance of about 40 feet I made the gesture of tossing a worm. The bird came at once, only slightly timid, and was given worms. It was in almost perfect condition as to plumage and I though, what a marvellous improvement Neo has made. I went to get more worms and returned and Neo came out for them; but he was suddenly shabby again! The first bird was not Neo. It was, in fact, tamer than Neo. I do not know who it was. Possibly N2, although I have not seen her for weeks, much less had her approach me. Maybe the shrill song was hers.