Predation and Motallit 
Preators and mortality had vr little uigniftmoeo in the oonating 
of the eperiment. A know    total of only fur birds, two pheasants and two

quil, were taken by predators. The two phieamts "ere ymn    cocs. as
indicated 
by pluage, a sprv. There woe not enouh remais to disclse the sex of oxw 
quail klled, An observer sa a Cooer$ s haw kill the seond quail. 
On November 19 the soattered remains of the first peasant killed were foumd

in the Sudan Grass, Te bird had evidently been flushed from the patch sad
VOs 
killed abeut two feet fwom it in the meadow, as indieated by mueroasmall

feathers.  The coarass had then been dr'ed into the Wan grass and dmured.

Unfortuately, heavy mint had obliterated any tracs, even thomg the Sudan
Grass 
had been trampled considerably. The carns ws so completely demolished that

the   e snot eno  left to identif  the predator that had made the prima:7

kill. 
On Decber 8 the rmains of the secd pheasat killed were foud In the 
rye adjacent to the Earl.y Amber Seftm   It had been killed on the roost
and 
evdently the night before, beomse there wes considerable of the ca-rcess
loft. 
S1 rodents and other predators had n   dhans to m o   it.   The tracks 
around the kill were those of a fox. 
Th~e remains of the quail were found in the Geman millet and ans said 
before, there we only a win and a fw other feathr. It had been killed at

the scond pheasat kill. This 4iat have been a Great Hored Owl kill,, 
beornse it looked like the wot of that owl.just as did the ottontail rabbit

found in the sadow on 7ebraz 1, and there wes a pair of owls located in 
the dep woods near th   fedin   esation at the Inianmud. Incidentally these

owls were known to be Inazbatiug on Jawaawy 20, the earliest regord for these
parts. 
*Of the 19 pellets found, one contained the skull of a qusil. Bwaims of a

Pheasant were found in the nest.