are promptly removed by the thrashers and I wondered if the poor fellow has been hovering it hoping for a miracle. Roof for B's nest. A roof of "flexoglas" (fly screen glazed with cellulose acetate) was installed over the nest. At 4:45 B came and took his place in the nest without hesitation. Nov. 1st. There was a lot of early song, ceasing about 7:30 A.M. I tried to get some close-ups of Rhody sunning his back this forenoon, but it was one of his most active mornings. Whenever I managed to get in proper position (He was out hunting in the field) he always discovered something interesting elsewhere. First it was a Jerusalem cricket, then a centipede, both of which he ate. The action was too quick for me to get set up. Next it was something down in a swale a hundred yards away. He made a fine flight down into it and glided up the far side. A sparrow-hawk flew out of it and ground squirrels were momentarily startled. He ran up the hill in the direction of the hawk, perched on the top of a rock and seemed to be looking for the hawk. It returned and swooped down over his head, perhaps 20 feet above it, then lit on the roof of a house. Rhody next made a swift dash of about a hundred yards parallel to the street, through the shrubbery, flushing birds from each group of bushes as he passed beneath. This brought him back near me. When I had him well in focus about 15 feet away with a telephoto lens, he suddenly decided to climb a eucalyptus tree, went up about 15 feet and composed himself for a good rest, looking off over the wide spread view. To get him down I exhibited a very large mouse, which he came and got; ate it, then up another tree for a real rest, after a thor- ough preening. He was about 8 feet above the ground. He puffed him- self out so that his feet were entirely concealed and his feathers completely enveloped the limb upon which he sat. It looked as if the limb stuck into him on one side and came out the other as if he had