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at times actually trying to think it out.
2:58 Attention momentarily attracted from mirror to something in
line with me and stares fixedly at it without moving until:
2:59½ I look behind me and see nothing unusual.
3:10 Delivery truck stops 50 feet from me and man comes to me, but
Rhody continues his pecking at the mirror.
3:13 Man and truck go. R stays, still busy.
3:15 I move up to about 3 feet from mirror, R does not change tac-
tics.
3:20 I return to original location.
3:27 R takes 1 minute rest.
3:28 Goes to far end of cage outside.
3:29 Goes 30 feet to south to gaze down into the driveway and the
street and rest in shade (out of the wind).
3:35 I thought this was the wind-up, but Rhody seems to have a time-
sense and was back again at the mirror at exactly a 3 hour
lapse of time since his arrival there.
3:35½ I took mirror away, as I had had enough.
3:36 Rhody came out of cage and dusted.
3:37 Goes back and wonders where mirror has gone. He comes over
toward me (for a drink?) but sees mirror face up on the ground
at my feet and looks at himself without pecking. This had
not been intended as a test.
3:38 Another truck comes and Rhody wanders off unhurriedly toward
the glade, gets a drink there at
3:40 and goes down in where B is singing sub-song. B comes to me
for worms, unperturbed, but R was not seen.
Nov. 6th.
The usual early morning song.
Brownie, in the old oak, Nova accounted for in the glade, began
full song again about 9 o'clock. This started the high-pitched song
off to the east, so the author was neither B nor N. Soon still
another song was heard a long way off to the south west.
A little later, B and N absent at the time, the high pitched
song and one like B's were heard at the same time off to the east.
Investigation disclosed B and N off there together in a pine tree and