out into the open and eat out of the feeding stations about 20 feet from me, provided that I do not move. She is bolder than she has been for a couple of months, but she did this same thing on first arrival and then relapsed. Nova's bird, Nb, is moulting, and has been for some time. He is more ragged than his nest-mate. Bb detached himself from the group at the lawn to come for worms. Brownie was fairly tolerant of this, after he had taken one or two himself, Bb complaining of the injustice. There was no chasing at all The young birds left voluntarily, both going up into the patio. me at the At 5:45 B came to magpie cage then went to his night roost; whether for good, it is too early to say as yet (6:15). He was not heard calling his family together between four and the time of his retirement. At that time Nova was up in the old oak doing the call- ing. (Scraps and queelicks). B did not respond in any way. At 6:25 B was evidently settled for the night in the dorm. (Sunset 6:40 P.M.) B beat it by nearly an hour (55 min.). This is unaccountably early. At 6:35 the sun is disappearing behind the Tam- alpais ridge. Sept. 3rd. B opened the day with song. About 9 his singing post was the pine adjoining the sparrow-hawk pine. Again he flew down to me when he saw me and, after eating went to the dormitory tree by an indirect route. Nova then began calling queelick from the old oak, keeping it up without change for about 5 minutes. B, in plain sight from where I sat 25 feet away, but not in his night roost, remained silent, seemingly disregarding Nova. In a few minutes he went to his night roost, pass- ing through the glass house. He remained quiet here also for several minutes. Meanwhile Nova had abbreviated her call by running the two syllables together, then changing to khrick (the r scarcely sounded),