fly". He caught them neatly and swallowed them all in one movement. This is a pretty good example of his rapid accommodation of vision and accurate coordination of movement. The quick flick of my hand ending at probably less than two feet from the end of his nose, usually, though not always, caused him to recoil somewhat. Notwith- standing this handicap, he caught them cleanly at this short dist- ance. His movements were so quick that the eye could not follow them and he appeared to be catching them with his bill closed, which, of course, is impossible. It should be noted that I was squatted upon the ground and that my hand was about at the same level as his bill. Later, when R came to the cage, where I was sitting waiting for him to appear, he passed right by the mirror and went in and got his meat. He then spent a long time looking at the magpies and the rail, round eyed and intensely interested, looking bright and intell- to be igent. He seemed actually trying to puzzle it all out. He display- ed once for the benefit of the rail, who regarded him phlegmatically. He went in and out of the cage several times and danced before the mirror, but not each time he passed it. He also spent quite a little time looking at himself in it calmly with his bill almost touching the glass. He also tried to get through the wire into the cage. fully It was very noticeable that he is able to display all of the colors, blue white and red, back of his eye without raising his crest at all and, contrariwise, he can raise his crest fully without show- in the least. Consequently it is evident that he must have separate sets of muscles for controlling these two displays. This has been observed repeatedly, but I have not thought to record it before. Dec.7th. Brownie was singing about 6 A.M., but by 7 o'clock had stopped, and for the rest of the day, until 5:20 P.M. in fact, not a thrash-