flourish Rhody re-entered the cage, made a hurried loop along the magpie front with spread wings and tail and ran off to stare at the scenery through the fence. Two hours later I encountered him near the entrance from the street. He chased a butterfly toward me, but stopped as it passed me and when I held out a worm, came and took it gently from my hand. His attention wandered to Brownie and Nova digging across the drive- way to the north, so he went to investigate. On the way he discover- ed a bogie under a bush and "attacked" it, only to be distracted by a dried brake ten feet away. He pulled the tip off of this and carried it to the berry patch. Here he crouched and gazed at some- things under a baccharis, darted under it and out the other side and pursued a bird 30 feet to the north boundary where he stopped and the pursued sat in an acacia over his head. It was Brownie again. B said we-oo-hickey once or twice, then moved off a few feet to dig in a compost heap without a backward look. R then simply evaporated. These notes have recorded R's interest in B on occasions when the latter has approached the cage in which R was incarcerated. The fact that Rhody, when apparently attacking Brownie, has also bestowed similar attentions on inanimate objects on the same occasions and played the clown in general, seems to indicate that this is merely play. However, it remains to be seen whether he regards B as a playmate, an enemy or as one who directly or indirectly, if follow- ed, might guide him to a nest or even himself prove an attractive article of diet. This last I regard as highly improbable. So far Rhody has never attempted to kill any object that he could not swallow whole. Bb during the afternoon sang often, his music being indistinguish- able from B's quarter to half song, provided it is one of B's with- out mimicry. Practically no work on the nest today.