been neatly skewered. I waited over an hour for him to come down, but the mouse-centipede-cricket luncheon (or breakfast) and his com- fortable perch, together with(probably)ample food earlier, made a combination which favored repose, so I left him there at 12:40, per- fectly contented with affairs as they were. About 3 P.M., Rhody, after cavorting about in and out of the cage, studying the magpies and flirting with them, bethought himself of the mirror, as evidenced by what appeared to be a search for it in the place where he has usually seen it. When I replaced it, he directly went to it immediately from a point outside the cage where he could not have seen his reflection, showing that he had formed definite associations with it, which attracted him to it. He lost no time in getting into action. Again he was "trapped". After 15 minutes or so I took it away from him to save both his bill and his sanity. He then transferred his attentions to the magpies and the mocking-bird and in the process demonstrated that he not only is capable of upward flight, but also of sharp turns in the air and accurate landings. The temporary cage is shaped in plan like a capital letter L. The longer arm is 12 feet long and the shorter 6 feet. It is about 7 feet high inside. There is a door at each end. He suddenly flew horizontally, without a preliminary run, about 7 feet, then turned abruptly at right angles to the left, in the air, and flew upward about 6 feet at an angle steeper than 60 degrees and landed on the he top of an open door accurately, where had only 4 inches of head-room and about 6 inches of margin in a horizontal direction. (From this point he got a better view of the birds in the two cages, and I sup- pose that was his object). All this was done with precision--in a confined space--without accidental contact with anything. (The upward angle actually worked out at 63.4 degrees based on the known dimensions of the space and the course of his flight).