hurriedly when I approached him. No amount of persuasion could stop him. Dec.16th. B's morning behavior practically duplicated yesterday's, though this time he was rather excited about something and scripped loud- ly and repeatedly while sitting on my hand, looking in all directions as if I were merely a convenient perch. Once or twice I could look down his throat when he uttered the sound. He does not modulate it with his bill. The latter is wide open at the beginning and the end of the sound. It is impossible to identify the consonants (if any) but it is certain that the vowel sound is a short i and not ee. I have thought that khrick or hkrick approximated the sound as well as anything, and perhaps it does; although if one imagines that it is whip, it sounds like that also! 1:20 P.M. Brownie has been singing full song at intervals ever since this morning garly, despite the fact that it began to rain about 9:30. He is at it again now. Something seems to have wound him up. Shortly after it began to rain Rhody was found sitting discon- solately, but dry, under a garden bench. He responded readily to a show of worms, catching them in the air with precision. I in- structed him to wait where he was (now in the open) which he did faithfully, and got a salamander previously captured for his benefit. This hapless creature was beaten upon the ground by him and then swallowed whole. This was not enough, so he went to the cage for meat, again passing back and forth by the mirror without pausing. I wonder if he is really learning the futility of getting excited about it. Dec. 17th. Brownie again sang full song repeatedly, beginning with his early morning summons of Nova. Although it was bright and clear,