rection of his roost. To cover the distance, about 200 yards, required just 50 minutes, as he had to drink, dust, see what the thrashers were talking about in the bushes in the glade; the quail ditto; also the brown towhees, golden-crowned sparrows and the wren-tits, at various points. He sneaked up noiselessly on all the bushes where these birds were along his route and watched them curiously without offering to molest any of them. Just before he started this walk two plain titmice had investigated him where he sat in the acacia, approaching to about four feet from him, scold- ing. Strangely enough, although they stayed in his immediate vicin- ity for several minutes, he did not once look at them. At 5:10 he was in his roost by the house in the oak. (Last night: 5:14--Mrs. S.) When I got back Brownie was just stowing away in the nest. In connection with the mirror dance it should have been noted that Rhody was much alarmed on catching sight of a stranger with me, and ran rapidly away as we approached him, not permitting us to get closer to him than about 100 feet, then disappearing in the bushes., and booing. We tried to "surround" him by getting on opposite sides of him and converging upon his supposed place of concealment, but loud he gave us the slip each time. Finally a loud boo from the glade betrayed his presence there, and warning Donald to stand still and keep his distance (about 25 yards) while I approached Rhody and tried to calm him down, we put the plan in effect. Rhody was up in a low tree, I found, about 6 feet from the ground. He let me come up to him, but booed and rattled his beak repeatedly and seemed much ex- cited. It was exactly as if he were reproaching me for appearing suddenly with a stranger. He slipped into the bushes headed toward the cage, entered it, saw the mirror and after that, forgot all about our presence and put on the show already noted. He is very decidedly afraid of strangers and when one is present,